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The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Iguazu 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 Puerto Iguazu for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’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. Puerto Iguazu 5, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Iguazu 28, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Iguazu 9, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Iguazu 14, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Iguazu 95, Stockholm 72: Puerto Iguazu leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Puerto Iguazu 33, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Puerto Iguazu 55, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Puerto Iguazu 54, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Iguazu 17, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 53 points.
Affordability. Puerto Iguazu 48, Stockholm 30: Puerto Iguazu leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Iguazu 7, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Iguazu 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: Puerto Iguazu and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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.

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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. Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto IguazuStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation162 m22 m
Main airportCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto IguazuStockholm
City population54,903984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km0266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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). 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. 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.