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The Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Nairobi or Stockholm?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Nairobi for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Nairobi’s own page.

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Nairobi 4, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Nairobi 48, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Nairobi 35, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Nairobi 58, Stockholm 57: Nairobi leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nairobi 84, Stockholm 72: Nairobi leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Nairobi 28, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Nairobi 55, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Nairobi 20, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 64 points.
Shopping & style. Nairobi 45, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Nairobi 60, Stockholm 30: Nairobi leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nairobi 35, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nairobi 25, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nairobi and Stockholm.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Nairobi
41match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNairobiStockholm
Official languageEnglish, SwahiliSwedish
CurrencyKenyan Shilling (KES)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999112
Elevation1,661 m22 m
Main airportJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNairobiStockholm
City population5,545,000984,748
People per km²7,9675,260
Museums within 10 km4266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.