VacationSelector

Dublin or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Dublin
55
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

DublinStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 11 points.11
DublinStockholm
Score4960
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1173
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
DublinStockholm
Score7076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3736
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
DublinStockholm
Score5569
Museums within 10 km4774
Museums within 2 km of centre3747
Share of museums within 2 km %7964
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Dublin and Stockholm are level on 64.
DublinStockholm
Score6464
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2391,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7563
Nightclubs within 4 km40106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 15 points.15
DublinStockholm
Score2641
Protected land share 50 km %37
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6277
Park area within 2 km43 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
DublinStockholm
Score5457
Tourist attractions within 2 km4123
Park area within 2 km43 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 17 points.17
DublinStockholm
Score6279
Notable places within 2 km141357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin and Stockholm are level on 57.
DublinStockholm
Score5757
Price level global80.280.3
Daily budget€187€169
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
DublinStockholm
Score5453
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 10 m
€86-108
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
8 h 30 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

MeasureDublinStockholm
Official languageEnglish, IrishSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m22 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinStockholm
City population592,713984,748
People per km²5,1545,260
Museums within 10 km40266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7481
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.