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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Stockholm?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Aarhus for

Aarhus does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Aarhus’s own page.

Choose Stockholm for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Aarhus 34, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Stockholm.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Aarhus
52match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Aarhus in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
17 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Aarhus's temperatures are measured 30 km from the centre, at Tirstrup.

Aarhus has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Stockholm has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusStockholm
Official languageDanishSwedish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m22 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusStockholm
City population290,598984,748
People per km²3,1935,260
Museums within 10 km17266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.