VacationSelector

Lisbon or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

LisbonStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
LisbonStockholm
Score5760
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2473
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonStockholm
Score8076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3136
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 1 points.1
LisbonStockholm
Score7069
Museums within 10 km12474
Museums within 2 km of centre5447
Share of museums within 2 km %4464
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 1 points.1
LisbonStockholm
Score6564
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2251,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7863
Nightclubs within 4 km65106
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 15 points.15
LisbonStockholm
Score5641
Protected land share 50 km %117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5477
Park area within 2 km77 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonStockholm
Score6957
Tourist attractions within 2 km8223
Park area within 2 km77 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 13 points.13
LisbonStockholm
Score6679
Notable places within 2 km169357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 17 points.17
LisbonStockholm
Score7457
Price level global55.980.3
Daily budget€109€169
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 25 points.25
LisbonStockholm
Score7853
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€177-270
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLisbonStockholm
Official languagePortugueseSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m22 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonStockholm
City population545,796984,748
People per km²5,4535,260
Museums within 10 km78266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre10681
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.