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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Quito 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 Quito for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • getting around
  • beaches

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. Quito 5, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Quito and Stockholm are level on 77.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Stockholm 72: Quito leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Stockholm 30: Quito leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito 38, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 44, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quito and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Quito
50match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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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QuitoStockholm

Where the figures come from

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuitoStockholm
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern QuichuaSwedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,850 m22 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoStockholm
City population1,763,275984,748
People per km²4,7355,260
Museums within 10 km16266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.