VacationSelector

Antwerp or Stockholm?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AntwerpStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
AntwerpStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpStockholm
Score7576
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4236
Museums & heritage. Antwerp and Stockholm are level on 69.
AntwerpStockholm
Score6969
Museums within 10 km4174
Museums within 2 km of centre2747
Share of museums within 2 km %6664
Unesco sites within 50 km93
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpStockholm
Score5964
Drinking venues within 4 km8661,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7663
Nightclubs within 4 km73106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpStockholm
Score3441
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8077
Park area within 2 km53 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpStockholm
Score4657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1423
Park area within 2 km53 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpStockholm
Score5479
Notable places within 2 km88357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpStockholm
Score6057
Price level global76.280.3
Daily budget€180€169
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpStockholm
Score5853
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpStockholm
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m22 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpStockholm
City population529,247984,748
People per km²2,5425,260
Museums within 10 km38266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km93
Distinct cuisines in the centre8081
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.