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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Halifax 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 Halifax for

  • prices

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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. Halifax 32, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Stockholm 30: Halifax leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Halifax
45match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 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. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (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

MeasureHalifaxStockholm
Official languageFrench, EnglishSwedish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m22 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxStockholm
City population440,072984,748
People per km²805,260
Museums within 10 km15266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.