VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

EdinburghStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghStockholm
Score5560
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2073
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghStockholm
Score7076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0231,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3536
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 12 points.12
EdinburghStockholm
Score5769
Museums within 10 km3074
Museums within 2 km of centre2247
Share of museums within 2 km %7364
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Edinburgh and Stockholm are level on 64.
EdinburghStockholm
Score6464
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1931,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7463
Nightclubs within 4 km65106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghStockholm
Score3541
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8577
Park area within 2 km166 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghStockholm
Score7257
Tourist attractions within 2 km8723
Park area within 2 km166 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghStockholm
Score6079
Notable places within 2 km126357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
EdinburghStockholm
Score5457
Price level global84.980.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghStockholm
Score5153
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 35 m
€193
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
5 h 0 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

MeasureEdinburghStockholm
Official languageEnglishSwedish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m22 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghStockholm
City population488,050984,748
People per km²1,8845,260
Museums within 10 km32266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre7881
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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.