VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Tromso?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CopenhagenTromso
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenTromso
Score5452
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1714
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 49 points.49
CopenhagenTromso
Score7324
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,18385
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3716
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 52 points.52
CopenhagenTromso
Score7523
Museums within 10 km8310
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %6180
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 60 points.60
CopenhagenTromso
Score677
Drinking venues within 4 km1,38467
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre80661
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5891
Nightclubs within 4 km645
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 39 points.39
CopenhagenTromso
Score5011
Protected land share 50 km %59
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %3965
Park area within 2 km138 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 57 points.57
CopenhagenTromso
Score7114
Tourist attractions within 2 km549
Park area within 2 km138 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 46 points.46
CopenhagenTromso
Score7428
Notable places within 2 km27320
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenTromso
Score5254
Price level global87.885.1
Daily budget€214€203
Year-round weather. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenTromso
Score5533
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 45 m
€143-174
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€197-218
CPH · 8 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 5 m
€62-71
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
3 h 5 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

MeasureCopenhagenTromso
Official languageDanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCEFK230 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
Elevation14 m20 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenTromso
City population667,09979,943
People per km²7,33932
Museums within 10 km728
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8223
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). 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. 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.