VacationSelector

Stockholm or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on value for money and 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.

StockholmWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
StockholmWarsaw
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km7326
Coast distance0 km238 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
StockholmWarsaw
Score7672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,5581,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3634
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
StockholmWarsaw
Score6963
Museums within 10 km74107
Museums within 2 km of centre4760
Share of museums within 2 km %6456
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
StockholmWarsaw
Score6462
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0901,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre689648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6364
Nightclubs within 4 km106104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 14 points.14
StockholmWarsaw
Score4155
Protected land share 50 km %727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km104 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
StockholmWarsaw
Score5770
Tourist attractions within 2 km2342
Park area within 2 km104 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
StockholmWarsaw
Score7976
Notable places within 2 km357299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 22 points.22
StockholmWarsaw
Score5779
Price level global80.349
Daily budget€169€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
StockholmWarsaw
Score5359
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months56
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureStockholmWarsaw
Official languageSwedishPolish
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m118 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmWarsaw
City population984,7481,862,402
People per km²5,2603,601
Museums within 10 km266117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8176
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.