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The Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane
BrisbaneThe Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Brisbane by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Brisbane 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 Brisbane for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • getting around

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. Brisbane 55, Stockholm 40: Brisbane leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Brisbane 60, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Brisbane 42, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Brisbane 55, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brisbane 74, Stockholm 72: Brisbane leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Brisbane 50, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Brisbane 78, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Brisbane 62, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Brisbane 45, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Brisbane 33, Stockholm 30: Brisbane leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brisbane 55, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brisbane 40, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brisbane and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Brisbane
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Brisbane in July

22 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
11 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. Brisbane: 1991-2020 normals, Brisbane (4.5 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrisbaneStockholm
Official languageEnglishSwedish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation0 m22 m
Main airportBrisbane International Airport (BNE)13 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrisbaneStockholm
City population2,706,966984,748
People per km²1715,260
Museums within 10 km16266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.