VacationSelector

New York or Stockholm?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

New YorkStockholm
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 4 points.4
New YorkStockholm
Score6460
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1773
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 19 points.19
New YorkStockholm
Score9576
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3836
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 9 points.9
New YorkStockholm
Score6069
Museums within 10 km11974
Museums within 2 km of centre3147
Share of museums within 2 km %2664
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. New York leads by 25 points.25
New YorkStockholm
Score8964
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1591,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4863
Nightclubs within 4 km192106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
New YorkStockholm
Score3941
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6977
Park area within 2 km134 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkStockholm
Score7257
Tourist attractions within 2 km3723
Park area within 2 km134 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
New YorkStockholm
Score7479
Notable places within 2 km268357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
New YorkStockholm
Score4357
Price level global10080.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. New York leads by 5 points.5
New YorkStockholm
Score5853
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
7 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureNew YorkStockholm
Official languageSwedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m22 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkStockholm
City population8,804,190984,748
People per km²7,2565,260
Museums within 10 km157266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre13281
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). 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.