VacationSelector

Stockholm or Zurich?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

StockholmZurich
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
StockholmZurich
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km7323
Coast distance0 km632 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 9 points.9
StockholmZurich
Score7667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,558974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3630
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 13 points.13
StockholmZurich
Score6956
Museums within 10 km7476
Museums within 2 km of centre4737
Share of museums within 2 km %6449
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
StockholmZurich
Score6454
Drinking venues within 4 km1,090676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre689553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6382
Nightclubs within 4 km10674
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 4 points.4
StockholmZurich
Score4137
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km104 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 21 points.21
StockholmZurich
Score5736
Tourist attractions within 2 km238
Park area within 2 km104 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 20 points.20
StockholmZurich
Score7959
Notable places within 2 km357119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
StockholmZurich
Score5735
Price level global80.3110.5
Daily budget€169€248
Year-round weather. Stockholm and Zurich are level on 53.
StockholmZurich
Score5353
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 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

MeasureStockholmZurich
Official languageSwedishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m408 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmZurich
City population984,748452,421
People per km²5,2605,147
Museums within 10 km26663
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8178
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.