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The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Rome 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 Rome for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • getting around
  • wellness

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. Rome 50, Stockholm 40: Rome leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Rome 82, Stockholm 64: Rome leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Rome 99, Stockholm 77: Rome leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Rome 58, Stockholm 57: Rome leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rome 58, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Rome 92, Stockholm 68: Rome leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Rome 50, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Rome 60, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Rome 72, Stockholm 70: Rome leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Rome 38, Stockholm 30: Rome leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rome 68, Stockholm 65: Rome leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rome 40, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rome and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Rome
64match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Stockholm
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.

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRomeStockholm
Official languageItalianSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation21 m22 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeStockholm
City population2,748,109984,748
People per km²2,1355,260
Museums within 10 km178266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km73
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.