VacationSelector

Lyon or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Lyon
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

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.

LyonStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
LyonStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2673
Coast distance253 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 3 points.3
LyonStockholm
Score7976
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6911,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4036
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
LyonStockholm
Score5569
Museums within 10 km5374
Museums within 2 km of centre2547
Share of museums within 2 km %4764
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
LyonStockholm
Score5864
Drinking venues within 4 km8661,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7163
Nightclubs within 4 km47106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 8 points.8
LyonStockholm
Score3341
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %60
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km120 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
LyonStockholm
Score5957
Tourist attractions within 2 km2523
Park area within 2 km120 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
LyonStockholm
Score5479
Notable places within 2 km86357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
LyonStockholm
Score6257
Price level global73.780.3
Daily budget€160€169
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 11 points.11
LyonStockholm
Score6453
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
TunisTUN
1 h 55 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
8 h 30 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

MeasureLyonStockholm
Official languageFrenchSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation160 m22 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonStockholm
City population519,127984,748
People per km²10,8385,260
Museums within 10 km42266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre14881
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). 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. 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.