VacationSelector

Dublin or Tromso?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DublinTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 3 points.3
DublinTromso
Score4952
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1114
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 46 points.46
DublinTromso
Score7024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre92085
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3716
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 32 points.32
DublinTromso
Score5523
Museums within 10 km4710
Museums within 2 km of centre378
Share of museums within 2 km %7980
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 57 points.57
DublinTromso
Score647
Drinking venues within 4 km1,23967
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre93461
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7591
Nightclubs within 4 km405
Nature & day trips. Dublin leads by 15 points.15
DublinTromso
Score2611
Protected land share 50 km %39
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6265
Park area within 2 km43 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 40 points.40
DublinTromso
Score5414
Tourist attractions within 2 km419
Park area within 2 km43 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 34 points.34
DublinTromso
Score6228
Notable places within 2 km14120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinTromso
Score5754
Price level global80.285.1
Daily budget€187€203
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 21 points.21
DublinTromso
Score5433
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months00
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 10 m
€86-108
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 30 m
no fares
BFS · 145 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
€188-230
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 15 m
€77-134
DUB · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinTromso
Official languageEnglish, IrishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation20 m20 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinTromso
City population592,71379,943
People per km²5,15432
Museums within 10 km408
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7423
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). 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.