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The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Phuket 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 Phuket for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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. Phuket 90, Stockholm 40: Phuket leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Phuket 66, Stockholm 64: Phuket leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Phuket 35, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Phuket 72, Stockholm 57: Phuket leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Phuket 80, Stockholm 72: Phuket leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Phuket 45, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Phuket 65, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Phuket 22, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Phuket 42, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Phuket 68, Stockholm 30: Phuket leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Phuket 20, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Phuket 82, Stockholm 56: Phuket leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Phuket and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Phuket
57match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around 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.

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

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. Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePhuketStockholm
Official languageThaiSwedish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation19 m22 m
Main airportPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhuketStockholm
City population77,610984,748
People per km²6,4685,260
Museums within 10 km2266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.