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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Delhi 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 Delhi for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • 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. Delhi 4, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Stockholm 64: Delhi leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Stockholm 77: Delhi leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Delhi and Stockholm are level on 68.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Stockholm 70: Delhi leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Stockholm 30: Delhi leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Delhi
53match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiStockholm
Official languageHindi, EnglishSwedish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation221 m22 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiStockholm
City population26,495,000984,748
People per km²18,9625,260
Museums within 10 km23266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
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.