VacationSelector

Catania or Tromso?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

CataniaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 6 points.6
CataniaTromso
Score5852
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km514
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaTromso
Score4924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre63785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1416
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 36 points.36
CataniaTromso
Score5923
Museums within 10 km3410
Museums within 2 km of centre278
Share of museums within 2 km %7980
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Catania leads by 40 points.40
CataniaTromso
Score477
Drinking venues within 4 km53767
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre40361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7591
Nightclubs within 4 km185
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 20 points.20
CataniaTromso
Score3111
Protected land share 50 km %109
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6165
Park area within 2 km11 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 22 points.22
CataniaTromso
Score3614
Tourist attractions within 2 km259
Park area within 2 km11 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 11 points.11
CataniaTromso
Score3928
Notable places within 2 km3720
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 14 points.14
CataniaTromso
Score6854
Price level global64.985.1
Daily budget€155€203
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 44 points.44
CataniaTromso
Score7733
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months50
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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Daytime high, °C
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCataniaTromso
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 45 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 55 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 35 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 35 m
€141-178
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 55 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

MeasureCataniaTromso
Official languageItalianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCFL230 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
Elevation7 m20 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaTromso
City population311,58479,943
People per km²1,70432
Museums within 10 km258
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3023
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.