VacationSelector

Stockholm or Sydney?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sydney
64
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

StockholmSydney
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm and Sydney are level on 60.
StockholmSydney
Score6060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km73160
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 2 points.2
StockholmSydney
Score7678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,5582,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3631
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 18 points.18
StockholmSydney
Score6951
Museums within 10 km7444
Museums within 2 km of centre4720
Share of museums within 2 km %6445
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 11 points.11
StockholmSydney
Score6475
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0902,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6891,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6369
Nightclubs within 4 km106120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 17 points.17
StockholmSydney
Score4158
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7752
Park area within 2 km104 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
StockholmSydney
Score5764
Tourist attractions within 2 km2337
Park area within 2 km104 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
StockholmSydney
Score7960
Notable places within 2 km357123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
StockholmSydney
Score5750
Price level global80.390.2
Daily budget€169—
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 28 points.28
StockholmSydney
Score5381
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months50
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmSydney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
9 h 50 m
€671
SYD · 9 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
9 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
9 h 55 m
€539-575
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 5 m
€99-123
ARN · 36 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureStockholmSydney
Official languageSwedishEnglish
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation22 m6 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmSydney
City population984,7485,450,496
People per km²5,260449
Museums within 10 km26638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre8179
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

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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. 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. 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. 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.