VacationSelector

Stockholm or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

StockholmVienna
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
StockholmVienna
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km7322
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
StockholmVienna
Score7677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,5581,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3637
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 12 points.12
StockholmVienna
Score6981
Museums within 10 km74192
Museums within 2 km of centre47110
Share of museums within 2 km %6457
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 10 points.10
StockholmVienna
Score6474
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0901,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6891,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6356
Nightclubs within 4 km106108
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 9 points.9
StockholmVienna
Score4132
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km104 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 12 points.12
StockholmVienna
Score5769
Tourist attractions within 2 km2346
Park area within 2 km104 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
StockholmVienna
Score7975
Notable places within 2 km357287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
StockholmVienna
Score5759
Price level global80.376.9
Daily budget€169€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 8 points.8
StockholmVienna
Score5361
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 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

MeasureStockholmVienna
Official languageSwedishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmVienna
City population984,7482,028,289
People per km²5,2604,890
Museums within 10 km266152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre81113
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.