VacationSelector

Florence or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Florence
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

FlorenceStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
FlorenceStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km073
Coast distance78 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 17 points.17
FlorenceStockholm
Score5976
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1536
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceStockholm
Score8269
Museums within 10 km13274
Museums within 2 km of centre9347
Share of museums within 2 km %7064
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceStockholm
Score5664
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7363
Nightclubs within 4 km34106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
FlorenceStockholm
Score3841
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km86 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
FlorenceStockholm
Score5257
Tourist attractions within 2 km3023
Park area within 2 km86 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceStockholm
Score7579
Notable places within 2 km292357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceStockholm
Score6857
Price level global64.980.3
Daily budget€155€169
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 15 points.15
FlorenceStockholm
Score6853
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months25
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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceStockholm
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
NYO · 89 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
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

MeasureFlorenceStockholm
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
Elevation50 m22 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceStockholm
City population360,930984,748
People per km²3,5285,260
Museums within 10 km140266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre6281
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.