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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Stockholm?

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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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. Arequipa 8, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Stockholm 64: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Stockholm 72: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 47 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Stockholm 30: Arequipa leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on families and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaStockholm
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaSwedish
CurrencySol (PEN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m22 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaStockholm
City population1,008,290984,748
People per km²1,5515,260
Museums within 10 km3266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.