Search
Weekly note

Reykjavik or Stockholm?

2,143 km apart, in Iceland and Sweden. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Reykjavik is the better pick in August; Stockholm in April to July and September to October. November to March are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Reykjavik 3° 15d 3° 15d 4° 14d 7° 14d 9° 15d 11° 12d 13° 12d 13° 11d 10° 15d 7° 13d 5° 12d 3° 14d
Stockholm 1° 8d 1° 5d 6° 5d 10° 5d 16° 7d 21° 6d 22° 10d 21° 9d 17° 7d 11° 8d 5° 7d 2° 8d
Pick neitherneitherneitherStockholmStockholmStockholmStockholmReykjavikStockholmStockholmneitherneither

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

2,143 km as the crow flies, about 3h 32m in the air.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.