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Cairo or Tromso?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
Tromso

Photo: Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Cairo
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tromso
35
match

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

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CairoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Cairo leads by 2 points.2
Food & drink. Cairo leads by 24 points.24
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 69 points.69
Nightlife. Cairo leads by 10 points.10
Nature & outdoors. Tromso leads by 62 points.62
Day trips. Cairo leads by 52 points.52
Good for families. Tromso leads by 13 points.13
Getting around. Tromso leads by 25 points.25
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 43 points.43
Affordability. Cairo leads by 84 points.84
Live music & performing arts. Cairo leads by 18 points.18
Wellness & relaxation. Tromso leads by 23 points.23
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Tromso.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCairoTromso
Daytime high36 °C16 °C
Night-time low23 °C9 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm73 mm
Sunshine12 hours a day8 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea10 °C
Daylight14 hours a day24 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure 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
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Cairo
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCairoTromso
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 25 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
4 h 5 m
€245-328
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 45 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 55 m
€267-300
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
4 h 5 m
€210-279
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 25 m
€263-340
CAI · 17 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 5 m
€267-335
CAI · 17 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureCairoTromso
Official languageArabicNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation23 m20 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoTromso
City population9,801,53679,943
People per km²18,56432
Museums within 10 km488
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.