VacationSelector

Rome or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

RomeStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
RomeStockholm
Score3360
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km373
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 16 points.16
RomeStockholm
Score6076
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2411,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1036
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 15 points.15
RomeStockholm
Score8469
Museums within 10 km16174
Museums within 2 km of centre7947
Share of museums within 2 km %4964
Unesco sites within 50 km73
Nightlife. Rome leads by 10 points.10
RomeStockholm
Score7464
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0221,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4563
Nightclubs within 4 km85106
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 29 points.29
RomeStockholm
Score7041
Protected land share 50 km %197
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7877
Park area within 2 km172 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 29 points.29
RomeStockholm
Score8657
Tourist attractions within 2 km12623
Park area within 2 km172 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 20 points.20
RomeStockholm
Score9979
Notable places within 2 km1,125357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 11 points.11
RomeStockholm
Score6857
Price level global64.980.3
Daily budget€155€169
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 18 points.18
RomeStockholm
Score7153
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months35
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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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Daytime high, °C
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
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

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 centre230 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 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 km177266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km73
Distinct cuisines in the centre6581
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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). 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. 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.