VacationSelector

Seattle or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Seattle
52
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

SeattleStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Seattle and Stockholm are level on 60.
SeattleStockholm
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10073
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
SeattleStockholm
Score7576
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4601,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3536
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 33 points.33
SeattleStockholm
Score3669
Museums within 10 km2874
Museums within 2 km of centre1747
Share of museums within 2 km %6164
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
SeattleStockholm
Score5764
Drinking venues within 4 km8731,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8063
Nightclubs within 4 km34106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
SeattleStockholm
Score4041
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8077
Park area within 2 km63 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 11 points.11
SeattleStockholm
Score4657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1723
Park area within 2 km63 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
SeattleStockholm
Score5279
Notable places within 2 km76357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
SeattleStockholm
Score4357
Price level global10080.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
SeattleStockholm
Score6153
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months35
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Seattle
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. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 5 m
€99-123
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
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

MeasureSeattleStockholm
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
Elevation40 m22 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleStockholm
City population737,015984,748
People per km²1,9965,260
Museums within 10 km27266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7881
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.