VacationSelector

Catania or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Catania
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

CataniaStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
CataniaStockholm
Score5860
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km573
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
CataniaStockholm
Score4976
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6371,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1436
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
CataniaStockholm
Score5969
Museums within 10 km3474
Museums within 2 km of centre2747
Share of museums within 2 km %7964
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 17 points.17
CataniaStockholm
Score4764
Drinking venues within 4 km5371,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7563
Nightclubs within 4 km18106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
CataniaStockholm
Score3141
Protected land share 50 km %107
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6177
Park area within 2 km11 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 21 points.21
CataniaStockholm
Score3657
Tourist attractions within 2 km2523
Park area within 2 km11 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 40 points.40
CataniaStockholm
Score3979
Notable places within 2 km37357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 11 points.11
CataniaStockholm
Score6857
Price level global64.980.3
Daily budget€155€169
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 24 points.24
CataniaStockholm
Score7753
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaStockholm
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
€71-90
ARN · 36 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
3 h 5 m
€99-123
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 45 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCataniaStockholm
Official languageItalianSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m22 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaStockholm
City population311,584984,748
People per km²1,7045,260
Museums within 10 km25266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre3081
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.