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The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

St. Pete Beach 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 St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’s own page.

Choose Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • shopping

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. St. Pete Beach 87, Stockholm 40: St. Pete Beach leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. St. Pete Beach 40, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. St. Pete Beach 18, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. St. Pete Beach 28, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. St. Pete Beach 57, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Day trips. St. Pete Beach 58, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Good for families. St. Pete Beach 72, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Getting around. St. Pete Beach 30, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. St. Pete Beach 20, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 50 points.
Affordability. St. Pete Beach 32, Stockholm 30: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. St. Pete Beach 20, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. St. Pete Beach 42, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: St. Pete Beach and Stockholm.

Your match

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

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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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St. Pete BeachStockholm

Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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. St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSt. Pete BeachStockholm
Official language-Swedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m22 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSt. Pete BeachStockholm
City population8,879984,748
People per km²1735,260
Museums within 10 km2266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.