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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Oaxaca 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 Oaxaca for

  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • beaches
  • getting around

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. Oaxaca 5, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Stockholm 64: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Stockholm 30: Oaxaca leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaStockholm
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSwedish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,555 m22 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaStockholm
City population258,913984,748
People per km²3,0285,260
Museums within 10 km10266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

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.