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Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Porto 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 Porto for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • wellness
  • 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. Porto and Stockholm are level on 40.
Food & drink. Porto 70, Stockholm 64: Porto leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Porto 68, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Porto 65, Stockholm 57: Porto leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Porto 64, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Porto 79, Stockholm 68: Porto leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Porto 52, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Porto 66, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Porto 52, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Porto 62, Stockholm 30: Porto leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Porto 52, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Porto 34, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Porto and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Porto
59match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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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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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortoStockholm
Official languagePortugueseSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m22 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoStockholm
City population273,476984,748
People per km²6,6065,260
Museums within 10 km42266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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

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.