VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Tromso?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Hong KongTromso
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 35 points.35
Hong KongTromso
Score8752
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km6514
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 64 points.64
Hong KongTromso
Score8824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,32585
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3216
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongTromso
Score3623
Museums within 10 km5010
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %3480
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 64 points.64
Hong KongTromso
Score717
Drinking venues within 4 km1,94867
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,15461
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5991
Nightclubs within 4 km375
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 53 points.53
Hong KongTromso
Score6411
Protected land share 50 km %89
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %2965
Park area within 2 km52 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 44 points.44
Hong KongTromso
Score5814
Tourist attractions within 2 km279
Park area within 2 km52 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 41 points.41
Hong KongTromso
Score6928
Notable places within 2 km20420
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
Hong KongTromso
Score6354
Price level global7285.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 41 points.41
Hong KongTromso
Score7433
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months40
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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F
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Daytime high, °C
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromHong KongTromso
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 50 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 50 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureHong KongTromso
Official languageStandard ChineseNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation7 m20 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongTromso
City population7,413,07079,943
People per km²32
Museums within 10 km398
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7623
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.