VacationSelector

Brussels or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Brussels
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BrusselsStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
BrusselsStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km073
Coast distance56 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 5 points.5
BrusselsStockholm
Score8176
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7791,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4436
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 11 points.11
BrusselsStockholm
Score8069
Museums within 10 km12074
Museums within 2 km of centre5947
Share of museums within 2 km %4964
Unesco sites within 50 km103
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsStockholm
Score6864
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4141,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6163
Nightclubs within 4 km84106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
BrusselsStockholm
Score3141
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km65 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
BrusselsStockholm
Score5657
Tourist attractions within 2 km2823
Park area within 2 km65 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
BrusselsStockholm
Score7379
Notable places within 2 km254357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 3 points.3
BrusselsStockholm
Score6057
Price level global76.280.3
Daily budget€180€169
Year-round weather. Brussels leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsStockholm
Score5753
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 45 m
€177-223
BRU · 11 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
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

MeasureBrusselsStockholm
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
Elevation70 m22 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 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

MeasureBrusselsStockholm
City population195,546984,748
People per km²5,9085,260
Museums within 10 km105266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km103
Distinct cuisines in the centre10981
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.