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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Boca Raton 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 Boca Raton for

  • beaches

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Boca Raton 82, Stockholm 40: Boca Raton leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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

Boca Raton 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 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. Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonStockholm
Official language-Swedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m22 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonStockholm
City population97,422984,748
People per km²1,2035,260
Museums within 10 km5266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.