VacationSelector

Kuala Lumpur or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Kuala Lumpur
62
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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.

Kuala LumpurStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 20 points.20
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score4060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km073
Coast distance38 km0 km
Water distance36 km0 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 2 points.2
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score7876
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,3581,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2836
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 18 points.18
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score5169
Museums within 10 km4174
Museums within 2 km of centre2647
Share of museums within 2 km %6364
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 3 points.3
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score6764
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3081,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre735689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5663
Nightclubs within 4 km126106
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 28 points.28
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score6941
Protected land share 50 km %287
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9777
Park area within 2 km70 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 3 points.3
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score6057
Tourist attractions within 2 km2623
Park area within 2 km70 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 28 points.28
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score5179
Notable places within 2 km75357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 35 points.35
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score9257
Price level global30.680.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
Kuala LumpurStockholm
Score5253
Monthly daytime high31.9 °C to 33.7 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall145 mm to 360 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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
No sunshine record
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. Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKuala LumpurStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 45 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 10 m
€203-227
KUL · 45 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 0 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 55 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 30 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 5 m
€143-157
KUL · 45 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
5 h 50 m
€215-226
1 stop
KUL · 45 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
PhuketHKT
1 h 30 m
€109-127
KUL · 45 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 10 m
no fares
KUL · 45 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKuala LumpurStockholm
Official languageMalaySwedish
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation50 m22 m
Main airportKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKuala LumpurStockholm
City population9,000,280984,748
People per km²36,9325,260
Museums within 10 km25266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre6981
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.