Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden: the weather, the air, the distance to the coast and what a month costs, each with its source. This page assesses no one.

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A year here

5 of 12 months have a mean temperature inside 10–26 °C, a band we chose and apply to every city alike. Thirty-year normals from NASA POWER, measured at this city’s own coordinates.

Jan-1-3-5
Feb-0-3-5
Mar30-3
Apr951
May15116
Jun191511
Jul231814
Aug221713
Sept17139
Oct1075
Nov431
Dec1-1-3

Each cell: average daily high, monthly mean, average daily low, in °C. These are averages of daily values over 2001–2020, not records — the hottest day is higher and is not shown.

How near the sea is

1.5 km

Straight-line distance from this city’s coordinates to the nearest coastline, computed from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors — Coastline (ne_10m_coastline) v5.1.2 at 1:10,000,000. Natural Earth is public domain, and anyone can download the same file and get the same number.

It is a distance and not an access. A city 8 km from the coast across a mountain ridge is not 8 km from the sea in any sense you would use, and the figure says nothing about what is on that coast — a container terminal and a bay give the same number. The coastline is the outline of the dataset’s land, so a river wide enough to separate land counts as coast.

Air through the year

Stockholm, 2025: PM2.5 averaged over 5 reference monitor(s) within 25 km. The World Health Organization’s guideline is 5 µg/m³ and its first interim target is 35.

Jan6
Feb6
Mar4
Apr6
May5
Jun5
Jul5
Aug7
Sept4
Oct4
Nov4
Dec4

How this city rates

Safety: 97 / 100measured
Healthcare: 96 / 100measured
Air quality: 100 / 100measured

A month here, for a reference household

Reference household: two adults aged 38 and 37, a one-bedroom home, no children.

Residence fees and health cover are those of EU/EEA free movement (right of residence, no registration). The low, middle and high figures are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles where a publisher states them; each line says who published it.

illustrative Money figures on this page are illustrative unless the figure names its publisher. The illustrative ones are arranged so the shape is right — a larger flat costs more than a smaller one, and the expensive cities are the expensive ones — and they are accurate in nothing. Do not plan on them.

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Line	P25 Full entry The lower quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall below it. Read it as the cheaper end of what is realistic, not as a bargain you can count on.	P50 Full entry The middle of the estimate range: half the observations fall below it and half above. It is the figure to read first — not a promise, but the most representative single number we have.	P75 Full entry The upper quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall above it. Budget against this one if you want room to be wrong.	Basis
Rent, 1-bedroom^*	not published	€728	not published	Median of published figuresPublished by Statistiska centralbyrån (Statistics Sweden) More about this figure Stockholm, observed 2 October 2026Measured in 2025.Covers every rented home in the city, including tenants who signed years ago.Rents in existing contracts — a newcomer is usually asked more.
Electricity, gas and fuel	€142	€177	€213	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure Per household
Water, sewerage and waste	€39	€48	€58	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure Per household
Internet and phone	€77	€97	€116	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure Per household
Groceries^*	not published	€514	not published	Average of published figuresPublished by Statistiska centralbyrån (SCB) More about this figure Adults: 2 · children: 0Measured in 2021.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: Per person, per month: the food bill of the average kosthushåll — everybody living in one dwelling who keeps house together — in Sweden's large cities and their commuter municipalities in 2021, divided by the 2.1 persons per household the same table states for the same group. It is the average person in the survey and not the average adult; a child is charged the same, because SCB publishes one figure per household and no split by age.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).This is the survey’s average person. Food has strong economies of scale, and the publisher states one figure per person and no split by household size — so a larger household is charged here as though each member shopped alone.72,590 SEK a year per household ÷ 2.10 people per household, both published by Statistiska centralbyrån (SCB)Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago.
Transport	€180	€258	€336	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure Adults: 2
Health cover^*	€0	€0	€0	Published figurePublished by Sveriges riksdag — Hälso- och sjukvårdslag (2017:30) More about this figure A premium or rate the state sets.Per member, by age bandMeasured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Every person registered (folkbokförd) as resident in the region, any age: «Regionen ska erbjuda en god hälso- och sjukvård åt den som är bosatt inom regionen» (8 kap. 1 §), and only patient fees may be charged (17 kap. 1 §), capped at 1 450 kronor per person per twelve months in 2026. No premium. Before registration — which needs a plan to stay a year and proof of means — a non-working EU citizen must hold comprehensive private cover that no public body prices.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself.
Schooling (state schooling)^*	€0	€0	€0	Published figurePublished by Sveriges riksdag (Skollag 2010:800) More about this figure Children: 0Measured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Grundskolan, per child. Skollagen 10 kap. 10 §: "Utbildningen ska vara avgiftsfri." The same paragraph frees more than the tuition: "Eleverna ska utan kostnad ha tillgång till läroböcker, andra läromedel och andra lärverktyg" and "Eleverna ska utan kostnad erbjudas näringsriktiga skolmåltider" — books, learning materials and nutritious school meals. 11 § allows occasional items of negligible cost.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself.
Building or service charge	not held	not held	not held	Held by nobody More about this figure Per household
Statutory levies and licences	not held	not held	not held	Held by nobody More about this figure Per household
Residence permit renewals	not held	not held	not held	Held by nobody More about this figure Per household
Domestic help	not held	not held	not held	Held by nobody More about this figure Per household
Household and leisure baseline	€392	€560	€726	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure People: 2
Total	not published	€2,382	not published	This total does not include Building or service charge, Statutory levies and licences, Residence permit renewals and Domestic help, which nobody publishes for this city. It is the sum of what we hold, not of what the household will pay.No low or high total, because the spread of these lines was never published: Rent, 1-bedroom and Groceries. Everything else here is either a measured range or an exact price.

– = not published by the source

Routes we hold for Sweden

EU/EEA free movement (right of residence, no registration) — Checked against the law
Residence permit to run your own business — Draft — not checked by us yet

Every requirement, as its rule states it, is on the page for Sweden

Provenance

Rule set 1.58.0-2026-10-11 · read on 26 October 2026. Every figure on this page was computed by the engine from versioned rule files. No language model produced any number here, and translation happens only after the calculation.

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