VacationSelector

Lucerne or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

LucerneStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
LucerneStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1673
Coast distance669 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 29 points.29
LucerneStockholm
Score4776
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2536
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 29 points.29
LucerneStockholm
Score4069
Museums within 10 km2374
Museums within 2 km of centre1347
Share of museums within 2 km %5764
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 36 points.36
LucerneStockholm
Score2864
Drinking venues within 4 km2021,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7563
Nightclubs within 4 km11106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 16 points.16
LucerneStockholm
Score2541
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km29 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
LucerneStockholm
Score3857
Tourist attractions within 2 km1523
Park area within 2 km29 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 44 points.44
LucerneStockholm
Score3579
Notable places within 2 km29357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
LucerneStockholm
Score3557
Price level global110.580.3
Daily budget€248€169
Year-round weather. Lucerne and Stockholm are level on 53.
LucerneStockholm
Score5353
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLucerneStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureLucerneStockholm
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSwedish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation436 m22 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneStockholm
City population86,234984,748
People per km²2,9635,260
Museums within 10 km14266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4681
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.