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Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Park City 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 Park City for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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. Park City 8, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Park City 40, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Park City 18, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Park City 25, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Park City 92, Stockholm 72: Park City leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Park City 40, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Park City 68, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Park City 60, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Park City 35, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Park City 12, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Park City 28, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Park City 52, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Park City and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Park City
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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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Park CityStockholm

Where the figures come from

Park City's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Park City 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 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. Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePark CityStockholm
Official language-Swedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m22 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePark CityStockholm
City population8,396984,748
People per km²1855,260
Museums within 10 km1266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.