Moving to Spain from Stockholm?

The climate you'd be trading for

Swap Stockholm for a typical Spanish city and, on the national picture, you're looking at about 7°C milder winters, 3.5 more hours of December daylight and about 7°C hotter summers. But "Spain" isn't one climate — it runs from the wet Atlantic northwest to the dry Mediterranean southeast, so the honest answer depends on where:

• Vigo Galicia · Atlantic

  vs Stockholm: about 8°C milder winters, 3 more hours of December daylight, roughly 3× the rain and about 2°C hotter summers. mild, green and wet — Spain’s Atlantic northwest.

• Alacant Costa Blanca · Mediterranean

  vs Stockholm: about 9°C milder winters, 3.5 more hours of December daylight, about half the rain and about 8°C hotter summers. dry, warm and sunny — the Mediterranean southeast.

• Málaga Costa del Sol · Mediterranean

  vs Stockholm: about 11°C milder winters, 3.5 more hours of December daylight and about 8°C hotter summers. warm winters on the southern coast.

Climate deltas compare 1991–2020 normals for Stockholm (Meteostat) against the same 30-year measure for each Spanish anchor. Rounded to whole degrees and bucketed rain ratios on purpose — coarse enough that measurement noise can't flip the direction.

Where Swedes actually settle

Not where a magazine says — Spain's own census records the people born in Sweden who live here today. Of about 23,082 Swedes across all 8,132 municipalities, these 8 hold the most:

Source: INE Censo Anual — residents by country of birth, 2025. Counts, not estimates. Big places top the list simply because they're big; the "per 1,000" column shows concentration. Linked names have a full town profile.

Getting back to Stockholm

Direct flights home run year-round from 6 Spanish airports:

• Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)
• Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)
• Gran Canaria Airport (LPA)
• Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)
• Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)
• Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI)

Seasonal (mostly summer): Bilbao (BIO), César Manrique-Lanzarote (ACE), Ibiza (IBZ), Tenerife Sur (TFS), Valencia (VLC).

Direct-route map from SpainScore's airport dataset (Spanish-departure scheduled routes). "Getting home easily" is one of the things the quiz can weight for you.