VacationSelector

San Diego or Stockholm?

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

Your match

San Diego
58
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

San DiegoStockholm
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 3 points.3
San DiegoStockholm
Score6360
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km4273
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 13 points.13
San DiegoStockholm
Score6376
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8231,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2736
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
San DiegoStockholm
Score4469
Museums within 10 km5974
Museums within 2 km of centre3047
Share of museums within 2 km %5164
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
San DiegoStockholm
Score5064
Drinking venues within 4 km6151,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6663
Nightclubs within 4 km31106
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 14 points.14
San DiegoStockholm
Score5541
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5277
Park area within 2 km308 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 18 points.18
San DiegoStockholm
Score7557
Tourist attractions within 2 km4023
Park area within 2 km308 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 39 points.39
San DiegoStockholm
Score4079
Notable places within 2 km40357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
San DiegoStockholm
Score4357
Price level global10080.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 35 points.35
San DiegoStockholm
Score8853
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months95
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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Daytime high, °C
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
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. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
10 h 15 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

MeasureSan DiegoStockholm
Official languageSwedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation129 m22 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoStockholm
City population1,386,932984,748
People per km²1,4385,260
Museums within 10 km26266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4481
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 monthNone

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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). 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.