VacationSelector

Paris or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

ParisStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
ParisStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km273
Coast distance149 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 14 points.14
ParisStockholm
Score9076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3336
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 7 points.7
ParisStockholm
Score7669
Museums within 10 km18574
Museums within 2 km of centre6547
Share of museums within 2 km %3564
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Paris leads by 24 points.24
ParisStockholm
Score8864
Drinking venues within 4 km3,7961,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4563
Nightclubs within 4 km201106
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 7 points.7
ParisStockholm
Score4841
Protected land share 50 km %287
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km82 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 18 points.18
ParisStockholm
Score7557
Tourist attractions within 2 km8923
Park area within 2 km82 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 15 points.15
ParisStockholm
Score9479
Notable places within 2 km865357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 5 points.5
ParisStockholm
Score6257
Price level global73.780.3
Daily budget€160€169
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 13 points.13
ParisStockholm
Score6653
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months15
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€150-199
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORY · 14 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

MeasureParisStockholm
Official languageFrenchSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation27 m22 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisStockholm
City population2,103,778984,748
People per km²19,9605,260
Museums within 10 km251266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre16981
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.