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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Laguna Beach 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 Laguna Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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. Laguna Beach 72, Stockholm 40: Laguna Beach leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Stockholm 72: Laguna Beach leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Stockholm 68: Laguna Beach leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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.

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 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. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachStockholm
Official language-Swedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m22 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachStockholm
City population23,032984,748
People per km²9075,260
Museums within 10 km2266
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.