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Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan
Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France

Photos: Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License.

Stockholm or Strasbourg?

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 Stockholm for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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

Choose Strasbourg for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Strasbourg’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. Stockholm 40, Strasbourg 10: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Stockholm 64, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Stockholm 77, Strasbourg 70: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Stockholm 57, Strasbourg 40: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Stockholm 72, Strasbourg 62: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Stockholm 68, Strasbourg 80: Strasbourg leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Stockholm 82, Strasbourg 66: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Stockholm 84, Strasbourg 79: Stockholm leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Stockholm 70, Strasbourg 52: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Stockholm 30, Strasbourg 44: Strasbourg leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Stockholm 65, Strasbourg 56: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Stockholm 56, Strasbourg 55: Stockholm leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Stockholm and Strasbourg.

Your match

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

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Strasbourg
57match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStockholmStrasbourg
Official languageSwedishFrench
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m132 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmStrasbourg
City population984,748293,771
People per km²5,2603,752
Museums within 10 km26621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. 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.