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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata 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 Plata for

  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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. Puerto Plata 80, Stockholm 40: Puerto Plata leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Stockholm 30: Puerto Plata leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

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.

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

Puerto Plata 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. Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 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 PlataStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m22 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataStockholm
City population-984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km1266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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