VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Tromso?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AmsterdamTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamTromso
Score4052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3314
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 59 points.59
AmsterdamTromso
Score8324
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,95785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4416
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 57 points.57
AmsterdamTromso
Score8023
Museums within 10 km9810
Museums within 2 km of centre698
Share of museums within 2 km %7080
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 63 points.63
AmsterdamTromso
Score707
Drinking venues within 4 km1,54367
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,07861
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7091
Nightclubs within 4 km1145
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 49 points.49
AmsterdamTromso
Score6011
Protected land share 50 km %219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %8265
Park area within 2 km49 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 54 points.54
AmsterdamTromso
Score6814
Tourist attractions within 2 km749
Park area within 2 km49 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamTromso
Score6828
Notable places within 2 km19620
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamTromso
Score5854
Price level global79.285.1
Daily budget€181€203
Year-round weather. Amsterdam leads by 24 points.24
AmsterdamTromso
Score5733
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months00
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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 25 m
€200-244
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 20 m
€150-227
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureAmsterdamTromso
Official languageDutchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation-2 m20 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamTromso
City population921,46879,943
People per km²4,20832
Museums within 10 km1018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9823
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.