VacationSelector

Ghent or Tromso?

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

Your match

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

GhentTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 26 points.26
GhentTromso
Score2652
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km814
Coast distance32 km0 km
Water distance32 km0 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 46 points.46
GhentTromso
Score7024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre76485
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4916
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 35 points.35
GhentTromso
Score5823
Museums within 10 km2410
Museums within 2 km of centre208
Share of museums within 2 km %8380
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 42 points.42
GhentTromso
Score497
Drinking venues within 4 km57067
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre44661
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7891
Nightclubs within 4 km265
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 23 points.23
GhentTromso
Score3411
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %49
Land share of disc %8765
Park area within 2 km84 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 36 points.36
GhentTromso
Score5014
Tourist attractions within 2 km199
Park area within 2 km84 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 18 points.18
GhentTromso
Score4628
Notable places within 2 km5520
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
GhentTromso
Score6054
Price level global76.285.1
Daily budget€180€203
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 23 points.23
GhentTromso
Score5633
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months10
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentTromso
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 123 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 56 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€115-161
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
4 h 45 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

MeasureGhentTromso
Official languageFrench, German, DutchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation12 m20 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentTromso
City population272,65779,943
People per km²1,72832
Museums within 10 km308
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8323
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.