VacationSelector

Stockholm or Vancouver?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on 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.

StockholmVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm and Vancouver are level on 60.
StockholmVancouver
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km73109
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
StockholmVancouver
Score7674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,5581,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3635
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 35 points.35
StockholmVancouver
Score6934
Museums within 10 km7427
Museums within 2 km of centre4715
Share of museums within 2 km %6456
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
StockholmVancouver
Score6457
Drinking venues within 4 km1,090848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre689602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6371
Nightclubs within 4 km10644
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 36 points.36
StockholmVancouver
Score4177
Protected land share 50 km %719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7760
Park area within 2 km104 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
StockholmVancouver
Score5753
Tourist attractions within 2 km2315
Park area within 2 km104 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 31 points.31
StockholmVancouver
Score7948
Notable places within 2 km35763
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
StockholmVancouver
Score5754
Price level global80.384
Daily budget€169—
Year-round weather. Stockholm and Vancouver are level on 53.
StockholmVancouver
Score5353
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 25 m
€172-250
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 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

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 centre172 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre8185
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.