VacationSelector

Malaga or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Malaga
59
match

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

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

MalagaStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 6 points.6
MalagaStockholm
Score6660
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2173
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
MalagaStockholm
Score6976
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0021,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3436
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 16 points.16
MalagaStockholm
Score5369
Museums within 10 km4074
Museums within 2 km of centre3547
Share of museums within 2 km %8864
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
MalagaStockholm
Score5464
Drinking venues within 4 km7151,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6863
Nightclubs within 4 km45106
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 2 points.2
MalagaStockholm
Score4341
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6377
Park area within 2 km85 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
MalagaStockholm
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km3323
Park area within 2 km85 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 42 points.42
MalagaStockholm
Score3779
Notable places within 2 km33357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 14 points.14
MalagaStockholm
Score7157
Price level global60.880.3
Daily budget€122€169
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 29 points.29
MalagaStockholm
Score8253
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months55
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
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. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 0 m
€151-202
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 35 m
€198-239
2 stops
AGP · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€50-80
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
5 h 0 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

MeasureMalagaStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation18 m22 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaStockholm
City population599,063984,748
People per km²1,5175,260
Museums within 10 km32266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre6581
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.