VacationSelector

Stockholm or Tampa?

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

Your match

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

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

Tampa
44
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

StockholmTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 15 points.15
StockholmTampa
Score6075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km7310
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
StockholmTampa
Score7654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,558359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3631
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 42 points.42
StockholmTampa
Score6927
Museums within 10 km7413
Museums within 2 km of centre4710
Share of museums within 2 km %6477
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
StockholmTampa
Score6439
Drinking venues within 4 km1,090324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre689227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6370
Nightclubs within 4 km10626
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 11 points.11
StockholmTampa
Score4130
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7772
Park area within 2 km104 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
StockholmTampa
Score5730
Tourist attractions within 2 km233
Park area within 2 km104 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 58 points.58
StockholmTampa
Score7921
Notable places within 2 km35713
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
StockholmTampa
Score5743
Price level global80.3100
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 22 points.22
StockholmTampa
Score5375
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months51
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 25 m
€172-250
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureStockholmTampa
Official languageSwedish
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation22 m30 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmTampa
City population984,748384,959
People per km²5,260848
Museums within 10 km2666
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre8147
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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.