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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Tokyo?

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 Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 52 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Tokyo.

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.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and food and drink 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusTokyo
Official languageDanishJapanese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusTokyo
City population290,59814,264,798
People per km²3,1936,501
Museums within 10 km17192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.