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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

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

Aarhus or Tallinn?

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

  • families
  • shopping
  • beaches

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

Choose Tallinn for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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, Tallinn 28: Aarhus leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Tallinn 52: Aarhus leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Tallinn 44: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Tallinn 55: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Tallinn 58: Aarhus leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Tallinn 60: Aarhus leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Tallinn 72: Aarhus leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Tallinn 40: Aarhus leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Tallinn 50: Aarhus leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Tallinn.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Aarhus
52match

Wins on families and shopping with your weighting.

Tallinn
52match

Wins on prices 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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusTallinn
Official languageDanishEstonian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m28 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusTallinn
City population290,598457,572
People per km²3,1932,871
Museums within 10 km1716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.