VacationSelector

Berlin or Tromso?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BerlinTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
BerlinTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1714
Coast distance142 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 46 points.46
BerlinTromso
Score7024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,11785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3316
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 56 points.56
BerlinTromso
Score7923
Museums within 10 km20010
Museums within 2 km of centre818
Share of museums within 2 km %4180
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 69 points.69
BerlinTromso
Score767
Drinking venues within 4 km2,11467
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre71961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3491
Nightclubs within 4 km1355
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 38 points.38
BerlinTromso
Score4911
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %169
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km141 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 62 points.62
BerlinTromso
Score7614
Tourist attractions within 2 km549
Park area within 2 km141 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 56 points.56
BerlinTromso
Score8428
Notable places within 2 km48620
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BerlinTromso
Score6054
Price level global75.985.1
Daily budget€163€203
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 27 points.27
BerlinTromso
Score6033
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months30
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBerlinTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 5 m
€57-77
BER · 19 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 0 m
€156-196
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 40 m
€83-100
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
3 h 30 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

MeasureBerlinTromso
Official languageGermanNorwegian, 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 number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation34 m20 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinTromso
City population3,782,20279,943
People per km²4,24432
Museums within 10 km1588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8623
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Berlin or Tromso somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.