VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongStockholm
Score8760
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km6573
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 12 points.12
Hong KongStockholm
Score8876
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 33 points.33
Hong KongStockholm
Score3669
Museums within 10 km5074
Museums within 2 km of centre1747
Share of museums within 2 km %3464
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongStockholm
Score7164
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5963
Nightclubs within 4 km37106
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 23 points.23
Hong KongStockholm
Score6441
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2977
Park area within 2 km52 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 1 points.1
Hong KongStockholm
Score5857
Tourist attractions within 2 km2723
Park area within 2 km52 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
Hong KongStockholm
Score6979
Notable places within 2 km204357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 6 points.6
Hong KongStockholm
Score6357
Price level global7280.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 21 points.21
Hong KongStockholm
Score7453
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months45
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 50 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
8 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

MeasureHong KongStockholm
Official languageStandard ChineseSwedish
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m22 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongStockholm
City population7,413,070984,748
People per km²–5,260
Museums within 10 km39266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7681
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

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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.