VacationSelector

Rio de Janeiro or Stockholm?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 40 points.40
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score10060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km6173
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score5476
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8041,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1636
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro and Stockholm are level on 69.
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score6969
Museums within 10 km11074
Museums within 2 km of centre5147
Share of museums within 2 km %4664
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score5764
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre509689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6263
Nightclubs within 4 km50106
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 21 points.21
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score6241
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5777
Park area within 2 km113 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 2 points.2
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score5957
Tourist attractions within 2 km3023
Park area within 2 km113 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 23 points.23
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score5679
Notable places within 2 km98357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 24 points.24
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score8157
Price level global46.180.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 32 points.32
Rio de JaneiroStockholm
Score8553
Monthly daytime high24 °C to 28.4 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 232 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
No sunshine record
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRio de JaneiroStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€99-123
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureRio de JaneiroStockholm
Official languagePortugueseSwedish
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation31 m22 m
Main airportRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRio de JaneiroStockholm
City population6,211,223984,748
People per km²4,9305,260
Museums within 10 km70266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2781
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.