VacationSelector

Faro or Tromso?

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

Your match

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

FaroTromso
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 9 points.9
FaroTromso
Score6152
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1314
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroTromso
Score4424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre25585
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Tromso leads by 1 points.1
FaroTromso
Score2223
Museums within 10 km910
Museums within 2 km of centre88
Share of museums within 2 km %8980
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Faro leads by 14 points.14
FaroTromso
Score217
Drinking venues within 4 km14367
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre12361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8691
Nightclubs within 4 km85
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 46 points.46
FaroTromso
Score5711
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %4265
Park area within 2 km34 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 22 points.22
FaroTromso
Score3614
Tourist attractions within 2 km109
Park area within 2 km34 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Tromso leads by 6 points.6
FaroTromso
Score2228
Notable places within 2 km1420
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroTromso
Score7454
Price level global55.985.1
Daily budget€109€203
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 50 points.50
FaroTromso
Score8333
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months60
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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 40 m
€134-165
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
3 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
3 h 30 m
€169-237
1 stop
FAO · 3 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFaroTromso
Official languagePortugueseNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroTromso
City population64,56079,943
People per km²31932
Museums within 10 km28
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3423
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.