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A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende 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 Miguel de Allende for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • beaches
  • getting around

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 Miguel de Allende 4, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Stockholm 68: San Miguel de Allende leads by 9 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 50 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Stockholm 30: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Stockholm 56: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Stockholm.

Your match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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 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 Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 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 Miguel de AllendeStockholm
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSwedish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,900 m22 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeStockholm
City population69,811984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km2266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.