VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Tromso?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

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

Tromso
27
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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.

Fort LauderdaleTromso
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 32 points.32
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score8452
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km714
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Fort Lauderdale leads by 21 points.21
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score4524
Restaurants within 2 km of centre37185
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1816
Museums & heritage. Tromso leads by 3 points.3
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score2023
Museums within 10 km1410
Museums within 2 km of centre68
Share of museums within 2 km %4380
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 27 points.27
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score347
Drinking venues within 4 km25967
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre14461
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5691
Nightclubs within 4 km185
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 70 points.70
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score8111
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %5165
Park area within 2 km45 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Fort Lauderdale leads by 5 points.5
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score1914
Tourist attractions within 2 km29
Park area within 2 km45 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tromso leads by 28 points.28
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score028
Notable places within 2 km220
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score4354
Price level global10085.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 43 points.43
Fort LauderdaleTromso
Score7633
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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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Daytime high, °C
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleTromso
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleTromso
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation11 m20 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleTromso
City population182,76079,943
People per km²1,82932
Museums within 10 km68
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2523
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.