VacationSelector

Bruges or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

BrugesStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 52 points.52
BrugesStockholm
Score860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
BrugesStockholm
Score5776
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 12 points.12
BrugesStockholm
Score5769
Museums within 10 km3074
Museums within 2 km of centre2447
Share of museums within 2 km %8064
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 30 points.30
BrugesStockholm
Score3464
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8063
Nightclubs within 4 km8106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 15 points.15
BrugesStockholm
Score2641
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6577
Park area within 2 km59 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 3 points.3
BrugesStockholm
Score6057
Tourist attractions within 2 km5223
Park area within 2 km59 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 39 points.39
BrugesStockholm
Score4079
Notable places within 2 km40357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 3 points.3
BrugesStockholm
Score6057
Price level global76.280.3
Daily budget€180€169
Year-round weather. Bruges leads by 3 points.3
BrugesStockholm
Score5653
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months15
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
3 h 5 m
€99-123
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
2 h 10 m
€86
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
€71-90
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
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

MeasureBrugesStockholm
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m22 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesStockholm
City population118,509984,748
People per km²8405,260
Museums within 10 km38266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre5181
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.