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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

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. Bangkok 12, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Stockholm 64: Bangkok leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Stockholm 77: Bangkok leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Stockholm 57: Bangkok leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Stockholm 68: Bangkok leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Stockholm 70: Bangkok leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Stockholm 30: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Stockholm 56: Bangkok leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bangkok
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Stockholm
64match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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

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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokStockholm
Official languageThaiSwedish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m22 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokStockholm
City population5,676,648984,748
People per km²3,6195,260
Museums within 10 km59266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.