VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Tromso?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

HeidelbergTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
HeidelbergTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km614
Coast distance406 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 23 points.23
HeidelbergTromso
Score4724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre26985
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 36 points.36
HeidelbergTromso
Score5923
Museums within 10 km5410
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %4380
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Heidelberg leads by 20 points.20
HeidelbergTromso
Score277
Drinking venues within 4 km20167
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8491
Nightclubs within 4 km85
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 63 points.63
HeidelbergTromso
Score7411
Protected land share 50 km %529
Landscape blanket share 50 km %229
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km20 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 29 points.29
HeidelbergTromso
Score4314
Tourist attractions within 2 km299
Park area within 2 km20 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Heidelberg leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergTromso
Score3628
Notable places within 2 km3120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 6 points.6
HeidelbergTromso
Score6054
Price level global75.985.1
Daily budget€163€203
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 28 points.28
HeidelbergTromso
Score6133
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
€173-202
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€239-263
FRA · 69 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 5 m
€140-202
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 69 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 10 m
€147-192
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
3 h 30 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

MeasureHeidelbergTromso
Official languageGermanNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation114 m20 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergTromso
City population162,96079,943
People per km²1,49632
Museums within 10 km178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre4523
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.