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Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Stockholm or West Palm Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Stockholm 64, West Palm Beach 52: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Stockholm 77, West Palm Beach 42: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Stockholm 57, West Palm Beach 36: Stockholm leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Stockholm 72, West Palm Beach 58: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Stockholm 68, West Palm Beach 55: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Stockholm 82, West Palm Beach 66: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Stockholm 84, West Palm Beach 38: Stockholm leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Stockholm 70, West Palm Beach 64: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Stockholm 30, West Palm Beach 23: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Stockholm 65, West Palm Beach 47: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Stockholm 56, West Palm Beach 44: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Stockholm and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStockholmWest Palm Beach
Official languageSwedish-
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation22 m6 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmWest Palm Beach
City population984,748117,415
People per km²5,260786
Museums within 10 km2664
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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.