VacationSelector

Manchester or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Manchester
47
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

ManchesterStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 32 points.32
ManchesterStockholm
Score2860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1073
Coast distance27 km0 km
Water distance27 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 8 points.8
ManchesterStockholm
Score6876
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8531,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3536
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
ManchesterStockholm
Score4269
Museums within 10 km2374
Museums within 2 km of centre1147
Share of museums within 2 km %4864
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
ManchesterStockholm
Score6264
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0291,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7763
Nightclubs within 4 km82106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
ManchesterStockholm
Score3641
Protected land share 50 km %177
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %9977
Park area within 2 km63 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
ManchesterStockholm
Score3257
Tourist attractions within 2 km523
Park area within 2 km63 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 31 points.31
ManchesterStockholm
Score4879
Notable places within 2 km61357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
ManchesterStockholm
Score5457
Price level global84.980.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Manchester leads by 1 points.1
ManchesterStockholm
Score5453
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterStockholm
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureManchesterStockholm
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
Elevation38 m22 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterStockholm
City population547,627984,748
People per km²4,7375,260
Museums within 10 km28266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6381
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). 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. 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.