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The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
San JoseThe Winchester Mystery House
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

San Jose 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 San Jose for

  • day trips

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. San Jose 30, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. San Jose 56, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. San Jose 36, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. San Jose 33, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Jose and Stockholm are level on 72.
Day trips. San Jose 78, Stockholm 68: San Jose leads by 10 points.
Good for families. San Jose 65, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Getting around. San Jose 30, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. San Jose 48, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Affordability. San Jose 20, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Jose 38, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Jose 30, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Jose and Stockholm.

Your match

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

San Jose
45match

Wins on day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Jose in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °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

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. San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan JoseStockholm
Official language-Swedish
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
Elevation25 m22 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseStockholm
City population1,013,240984,748
People per km²2,1675,260
Museums within 10 km19266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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.

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.