VacationSelector

Barcelona or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

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

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BarcelonaStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 5 points.5
BarcelonaStockholm
Score6560
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2073
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaStockholm
Score9076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,7861,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4136
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
BarcelonaStockholm
Score6869
Museums within 10 km10574
Museums within 2 km of centre4947
Share of museums within 2 km %4764
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 18 points.18
BarcelonaStockholm
Score8264
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7111,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6163
Nightclubs within 4 km245106
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 9 points.9
BarcelonaStockholm
Score5041
Protected land share 50 km %107
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5177
Park area within 2 km49 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 8 points.8
BarcelonaStockholm
Score6557
Tourist attractions within 2 km6023
Park area within 2 km49 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
BarcelonaStockholm
Score7379
Notable places within 2 km258357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaStockholm
Score7157
Price level global60.880.3
Daily budget€122€169
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 25 points.25
BarcelonaStockholm
Score7853
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months55
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 45 m
€108-166
1 stop
BCN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€193
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 45 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
€282-445
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 55 m
no fares
BCN · 13 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

MeasureBarcelonaStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
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
Elevation9 m22 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaStockholm
City population1,731,649984,748
People per km²17,0945,260
Museums within 10 km95266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre12881
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.