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Baden-Baden or Stockholm?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden

Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
Stockholm

Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Baden-Baden
50
match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Baden-BadenStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 32 points.32
Food & drink. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
Culture & sights. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 42 points.42
Nature & outdoors. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
Day trips. Baden-Baden leads by 10 points.10
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 32 points.32
Getting around. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
Shopping & style. Stockholm leads by 32 points.32
Affordability. Baden-Baden and Stockholm are level on 30.
Live music & performing arts. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden leads by 40 points.40
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Stockholm.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBaden-BadenStockholm
Daytime high25 °C24 °C
Night-time low14 °C15 °C
Rainfall in the month117 mm60 mm
Sunshine8 hours a day9 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea16 °C
Daylight16 hours a day18 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Baden-Baden
6
7
11
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
6
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Baden-Baden
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Baden-Baden
107
99
106
79
119
104
117
102
91
109
113
122
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Baden-Baden
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Baden-Baden
2
3
5
6
7
8
8
7
6
3
2
1
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Where the figures come from

Stockholm's temperatures are measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBaden-BadenStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
3 h 35 m
€193
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 72 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
€184-221
2 stops
FRA · 143 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€239-263
FRA · 143 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 143 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 143 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 143 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 143 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

MeasureBaden-BadenStockholm
Official languageGermanSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation181 m22 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre173 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenStockholm
City population56,952984,748
People per km²4065,260
Museums within 10 km11266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.