VacationSelector

Athens or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

AthensStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 12 points.12
AthensStockholm
Score4860
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km1473
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
AthensStockholm
Score6976
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4311,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2536
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 4 points.4
AthensStockholm
Score7369
Museums within 10 km12274
Museums within 2 km of centre7847
Share of museums within 2 km %6464
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Athens leads by 17 points.17
AthensStockholm
Score8164
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7181,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5063
Nightclubs within 4 km136106
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 4 points.4
AthensStockholm
Score4541
Protected land share 50 km %57
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5077
Park area within 2 km128 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 14 points.14
AthensStockholm
Score7157
Tourist attractions within 2 km6823
Park area within 2 km128 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
AthensStockholm
Score7579
Notable places within 2 km291357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 17 points.17
AthensStockholm
Score7457
Price level global55.880.3
Daily budget€125€169
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 21 points.21
AthensStockholm
Score7453
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months75
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€152-215
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
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

MeasureAthensStockholm
Official languageGreekSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m22 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensStockholm
City population643,452984,748
People per km²16,4995,260
Museums within 10 km88266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre8281
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. 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). 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. 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.