VacationSelector

London or Tromso?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

LondonTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
LondonTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4714
Coast distance43 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. London leads by 64 points.64
LondonTromso
Score8824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,31785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4016
Museums & heritage. London leads by 49 points.49
LondonTromso
Score7223
Museums within 10 km14810
Museums within 2 km of centre498
Share of museums within 2 km %3380
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 88 points.88
LondonTromso
Score957
Drinking venues within 4 km5,32767
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,44361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4691
Nightclubs within 4 km3125
Nature & day trips. London leads by 29 points.29
LondonTromso
Score4011
Protected land share 50 km %169
Landscape blanket share 50 km %149
Land share of disc %9765
Park area within 2 km84 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 61 points.61
LondonTromso
Score7514
Tourist attractions within 2 km859
Park area within 2 km84 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 61 points.61
LondonTromso
Score8928
Notable places within 2 km64920
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London and Tromso are level on 54.
LondonTromso
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. London leads by 30 points.30
LondonTromso
Score6333
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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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A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
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
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonTromso
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 10 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
3 h 55 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

MeasureLondonTromso
Official languageEnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation4 m20 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonTromso
City population8,799,72879,943
People per km²5,59832
Museums within 10 km2158
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11623
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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). 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. 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.