VacationSelector

Interlaken or Tromso?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

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

Tromso
✓ Best match
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

InterlakenTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
InterlakenTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1214
Coast distance713 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Interlaken leads by 5 points.5
InterlakenTromso
Score2924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre11885
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1716
Museums & heritage. Interlaken and Tromso are level on 23.
InterlakenTromso
Score2323
Museums within 10 km510
Museums within 2 km of centre28
Share of museums within 2 km %4080
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Tromso leads by 3 points.3
InterlakenTromso
Score47
Drinking venues within 4 km4267
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3861
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9091
Nightclubs within 4 km35
Nature & day trips. Interlaken leads by 16 points.16
InterlakenTromso
Score2711
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km5 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Interlaken and Tromso are level on 14.
InterlakenTromso
Score1414
Tourist attractions within 2 km119
Park area within 2 km5 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tromso leads by 6 points.6
InterlakenTromso
Score2228
Notable places within 2 km1420
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenTromso
Score3554
Price level global110.585.1
Daily budget€248€203
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 24 points.24
InterlakenTromso
Score5733
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months30
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInterlakenTromso
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCJ230 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
Elevation571 m20 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenTromso
City population6,12379,943
People per km²1,42432
Museums within 10 km38
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2223
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.