VacationSelector

Budapest or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Budapest
60
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BudapestStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
BudapestStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km673
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 1 points.1
BudapestStockholm
Score7776
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6991,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3536
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
BudapestStockholm
Score6469
Museums within 10 km14474
Museums within 2 km of centre6447
Share of museums within 2 km %4464
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 8 points.8
BudapestStockholm
Score7264
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7651,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6663
Nightclubs within 4 km97106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
BudapestStockholm
Score4041
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km111 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 14 points.14
BudapestStockholm
Score7157
Tourist attractions within 2 km7523
Park area within 2 km111 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
BudapestStockholm
Score6979
Notable places within 2 km206357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 23 points.23
BudapestStockholm
Score8057
Price level global4880.3
Daily budget€104€169
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 11 points.11
BudapestStockholm
Score6453
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months55
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€60-87
BUD · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 25 m
€163-222
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 25 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestStockholm
Official languageHungarianSwedish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m22 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestStockholm
City population1,685,209984,748
People per km²3,2095,260
Museums within 10 km81266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8681
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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