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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Tromso?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Boca Raton for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Boca Raton’s own page.

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Boca Raton 82, Tromso 8: Boca Raton leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Tromso 36: Boca Raton leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Tromso 27: Boca Raton leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Tromso 14: Boca Raton leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Tromso 45: Boca Raton leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Tromso 15: Boca Raton leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Tromso 11: Boca Raton leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Tromso 32: Boca Raton leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Tromso 38: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Tromso.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Boca Raton
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Boca Raton has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonTromso
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation4 m20 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonTromso
City population97,42279,943
People per km²1,20332
Museums within 10 km58
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.