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Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Stockholm or Windhoek?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Stockholm leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Stockholm 64, Windhoek 36: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Stockholm 77, Windhoek 30: Stockholm leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Stockholm 57, Windhoek 25: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Stockholm 72, Windhoek 52: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Stockholm 68, Windhoek 14: Stockholm leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Stockholm 82, Windhoek 30: Stockholm leads by 52 points.
Getting around. Stockholm 84, Windhoek 22: Stockholm leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Stockholm 70, Windhoek 30: Stockholm leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Stockholm 30, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Stockholm 65, Windhoek 18: Stockholm leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Stockholm 56, Windhoek 30: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Stockholm and Windhoek.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices 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

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStockholmWindhoek
Official languageSwedishEnglish
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m1,650 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmWindhoek
City population984,748486,169
People per km²5,26095
Museums within 10 km2665
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.