VacationSelector

Helsinki or Stuttgart?

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

Your match

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

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

HelsinkiStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 60 points.60
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1573
Coast distance0 km476 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 12 points.12
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score7159
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,005575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3829
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 7 points.7
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score4956
Museums within 10 km5765
Museums within 2 km of centre2321
Share of museums within 2 km %4032
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 7 points.7
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score5649
Drinking venues within 4 km807524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7571
Nightclubs within 4 km4053
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 38 points.38
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score4280
Protected land share 50 km %351
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km185 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 13 points.13
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score5845
Tourist attractions within 2 km2011
Park area within 2 km185 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 29 points.29
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score7344
Notable places within 2 km25750
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 4 points.4
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score5660
Price level global81.675.9
Daily budget€184€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 15 points.15
HelsinkiStuttgart
Score4863
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months33
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€206-225
HEL · 16 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
11 h 35 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 84 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 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

MeasureHelsinkiStuttgart
Official languageFinnish, SwedishGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m245 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiStuttgart
City population694,392633,484
People per km²3,2393,054
Museums within 10 km7442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7859
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. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.