VacationSelector

London 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, 2 points apart

London
64
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LondonStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
LondonStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4773
Coast distance43 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. London leads by 12 points.12
LondonStockholm
Score8876
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4036
Museums & heritage. London leads by 3 points.3
LondonStockholm
Score7269
Museums within 10 km14874
Museums within 2 km of centre4947
Share of museums within 2 km %3364
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. London leads by 31 points.31
LondonStockholm
Score9564
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3271,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4663
Nightclubs within 4 km312106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
LondonStockholm
Score4041
Protected land share 50 km %167
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9777
Park area within 2 km84 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 18 points.18
LondonStockholm
Score7557
Tourist attractions within 2 km8523
Park area within 2 km84 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. London leads by 10 points.10
LondonStockholm
Score8979
Notable places within 2 km649357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
LondonStockholm
Score5457
Price level global84.980.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. London leads by 10 points.10
LondonStockholm
Score6353
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months15
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonStockholm
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 20 m
€66-100
LGW · 40 km
3 h 50 m
€121-161
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureLondonStockholm
Official languageEnglishSwedish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m22 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonStockholm
City population8,799,728984,748
People per km²5,5985,260
Museums within 10 km215266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre11681
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.