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Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Stockholm or Toledo?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Toledo for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’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, Toledo 5: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Stockholm 64, Toledo 40: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Stockholm 77, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Stockholm 57, Toledo 22: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Stockholm 72, Toledo 40: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Stockholm 68, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Stockholm 82, Toledo 45: Stockholm leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Stockholm 84, Toledo 64: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Stockholm 70, Toledo 32: Stockholm leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Stockholm 30, Toledo 58: Toledo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Stockholm 65, Toledo 22: Stockholm leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Stockholm 56, Toledo 30: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Stockholm and Toledo.

Your match

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

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Toledo
43match

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

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStockholmToledo
Official languageSwedishSpanish
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m523 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmToledo
City population984,74887,216
People per km²5,260376
Museums within 10 km26613
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
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.