VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

HeidelbergStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
HeidelbergStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km673
Coast distance406 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 29 points.29
HeidelbergStockholm
Score4776
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2636
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergStockholm
Score5969
Museums within 10 km5474
Museums within 2 km of centre2347
Share of museums within 2 km %4364
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 37 points.37
HeidelbergStockholm
Score2764
Drinking venues within 4 km2011,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8463
Nightclubs within 4 km8106
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 33 points.33
HeidelbergStockholm
Score7441
Protected land share 50 km %527
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km20 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
HeidelbergStockholm
Score4357
Tourist attractions within 2 km2923
Park area within 2 km20 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 43 points.43
HeidelbergStockholm
Score3679
Notable places within 2 km31357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 3 points.3
HeidelbergStockholm
Score6057
Price level global75.980.3
Daily budget€163€169
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergStockholm
Score6153
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall45 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
€173-202
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
€184-221
2 stops
FRA · 69 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€239-263
FRA · 69 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
10 h 5 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHeidelbergStockholm
Official languageGermanSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation114 m22 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergStockholm
City population162,960984,748
People per km²1,4965,260
Museums within 10 km17266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre4581
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.