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Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Siem Reap 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 Siem Reap for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’s own page.

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • families
  • beaches

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. Siem Reap 5, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Siem Reap 45, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Siem Reap 88, Stockholm 77: Siem Reap leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Siem Reap 42, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siem Reap 40, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Siem Reap 55, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Siem Reap 35, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 47 points.
Getting around. Siem Reap 30, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Siem Reap 38, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Siem Reap 88, Stockholm 30: Siem Reap leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siem Reap 32, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siem Reap 60, Stockholm 56: Siem Reap leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siem Reap and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSiem ReapStockholm
Official languageKhmerSwedish
CurrencyRiel (KHR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsACG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 117, ambulance 119, fire 118112
Elevation18 m22 m
Main airportSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSiem ReapStockholm
City population147,866984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km6266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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.