'Aufräumen' is more like 'to tidy' while 'sauber machen' is like 'to clean up'. Example: Imagine your kitchen cupboard. Scene1: The plates, cups, etc are perfectly hygienic and clean, but not sorted. Big and small plates are mixed, the cups and glasses too, everything is in a chaos. You might look at it, shake your head and hear yourself say: 'Das muss ich aufräumen!' ('I have to tidy that'.) Scene2: The plates, cups etc are perfectly sorted, but they are dirty. Now you'd say: 'Das muss ich sauber machen.' ('I have to clean it up'.)

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> Are there any differences between "machen sauber" and "räumen"? "sauber machen", there you will clean something. "aufräumen", after that you will have more free room, f.e. in your cupboard.

saubermachen (/sauber machen) = reinigen, Staub wischen, Staub saugen, waschen, fegen (/kehren) to clean aufräumen = sortieren, einräumen, in Ordnung bringen, to put (/clear) something away Englisch: to clean up means both of it.