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The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Queenstown 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 Queenstown for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Queenstown’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. Queenstown 20, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Queenstown 45, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Queenstown 12, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Queenstown 42, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Queenstown 97, Stockholm 72: Queenstown leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Queenstown 50, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Queenstown 60, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Queenstown 45, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Queenstown 28, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Queenstown 20, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Queenstown 14, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Queenstown 42, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Queenstown and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Queenstown
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.

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
9 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

Queenstown has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQueenstownStockholm
Official languageEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, MāoriSwedish
CurrencyNew Zealand Dollar (NZD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+12, UTC+13 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111112
Elevation324 m22 m
Main airportQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureQueenstownStockholm
City population29,000984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km0266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.