VacationSelector

Beijing or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Beijing
53
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BeijingStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
BeijingStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km073
Coast distance145 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
BeijingStockholm
Score6369
Museums within 10 km9574
Museums within 2 km of centre1547
Share of museums within 2 km %1664
Unesco sites within 50 km63
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
BeijingStockholm
Score3541
Protected land share 50 km %37
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km143 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 20 points.20
BeijingStockholm
Score7757
Tourist attractions within 2 km4123
Park area within 2 km143 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km122
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 29 points.29
BeijingStockholm
Score5079
Notable places within 2 km69357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 22 points.22
BeijingStockholm
Score7957
Price level global4980.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 13 points.13
BeijingStockholm
Score6653
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months85
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
8 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 10 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
4 h 30 m
€173-234
1 stop
PKX · 45 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
8 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

MeasureBeijingStockholm
Official languagePutonghuaSwedish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m22 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingStockholm
City population21,893,095984,748
People per km²1,3345,260
Museums within 10 km83266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre2981
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.