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Wat Chiang Man in the old city, Chiang Mai
Chiang MaiWat Chiang Man in the old city
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Chiang Mai by Gije Cho, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Chiang Mai 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 Chiang Mai for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

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. Chiang Mai 6, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Chiang Mai 78, Stockholm 64: Chiang Mai leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Chiang Mai 65, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Chiang Mai 45, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chiang Mai 73, Stockholm 72: Chiang Mai leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Chiang Mai 48, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Chiang Mai 55, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Chiang Mai 38, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Chiang Mai 62, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Chiang Mai 90, Stockholm 30: Chiang Mai leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chiang Mai 30, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chiang Mai 82, Stockholm 56: Chiang Mai leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chiang Mai and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Chiang Mai
56match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Chiang Mai in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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. Chiang Mai: 1991-2020 normals, Chiang Mai (0.6 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChiang MaiStockholm
Official languageThaiSwedish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation310 m22 m
Main airportChiang Mai International Airport (CNX)3 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureChiang MaiStockholm
City population1,198,000984,748
People per km²2,9585,260
Museums within 10 km6266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.