VacationSelector

Berlin or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Berlin
62
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BerlinStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
BerlinStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1773
Coast distance142 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
BerlinStockholm
Score7076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3336
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 10 points.10
BerlinStockholm
Score7969
Museums within 10 km20074
Museums within 2 km of centre8147
Share of museums within 2 km %4164
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 12 points.12
BerlinStockholm
Score7664
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3463
Nightclubs within 4 km135106
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 8 points.8
BerlinStockholm
Score4941
Protected land share 50 km %207
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km141 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BerlinStockholm
Score7657
Tourist attractions within 2 km5423
Park area within 2 km141 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 5 points.5
BerlinStockholm
Score8479
Notable places within 2 km486357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 3 points.3
BerlinStockholm
Score6057
Price level global75.980.3
Daily budget€163€169
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 7 points.7
BerlinStockholm
Score6053
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months35
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 5 m
€57-77
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 40 m
€74-145
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
8 h 30 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

MeasureBerlinStockholm
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
Elevation34 m22 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinStockholm
City population3,782,202984,748
People per km²4,2445,260
Museums within 10 km158266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre8681
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). 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.

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.