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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bogota 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 Bogota for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • families
  • beaches

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. Bogota 5, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, Stockholm 64: Bogota leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, Stockholm 57: Bogota leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Bogota 45, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, Stockholm 30: Bogota leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Bogota
52match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBogotaStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number123112
Elevation2,582 m22 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaStockholm
City population8,034,649984,748
People per km²5,0925,260
Museums within 10 km30266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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.