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The Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace, Split
SplitThe Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Split by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Split 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 Split for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • shopping
  • families
  • 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. Split 75, Stockholm 40: Split leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Split 57, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Split 66, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Split 52, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Split 77, Stockholm 72: Split leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Split 78, Stockholm 68: Split leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Split 54, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Split 67, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Split 32, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Split 45, Stockholm 30: Split leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Split 37, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Split 40, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Split and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Split
57match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on shopping 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.

Split in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
25 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSplitStockholm
Official languageCroatianSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m22 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitStockholm
City population160,577984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km11266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.