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Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Stockholm or Vancouver?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Stockholm 64, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Stockholm 77, Vancouver 42: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Stockholm 57, Vancouver 42: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Stockholm 72, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Stockholm 68, Vancouver 45: Stockholm leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Stockholm 82, Vancouver 72: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Stockholm 84, Vancouver 73: Stockholm leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Stockholm 70, Vancouver 55: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Stockholm 30, Vancouver 27: Stockholm leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Stockholm 65, Vancouver 52: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Stockholm 56, Vancouver 50: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Stockholm and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Vancouver
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and food and drink 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStockholmVancouver
Official languageSwedishFrench, English
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation22 m2 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmVancouver
City population984,748662,248
People per km²5,2605,759
Museums within 10 km26626
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.