Aarhus is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula.
Aarhus . It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula , in the geographical centre of Denmark , 187 km northwest of Copenhagen and 289 km north of Hamburg , Germany . Aarhus is the central city in the East Jutland metropolitan area , which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016 . Aarhus Municipality ( Aarhus Kommune ) , until 2011 formerly known as Århus Municipality ( Århus Kommune ) , is a municipality in the Central Region , on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark .