VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Tromso?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

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

Tromso
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.

Los AngelesTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 23 points.23
Los AngelesTromso
Score2952
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km014
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 42 points.42
Los AngelesTromso
Score6624
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,33785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
Los AngelesTromso
Score4923
Museums within 10 km6910
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %3380
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 47 points.47
Los AngelesTromso
Score547
Drinking venues within 4 km66067
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre43261
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6591
Nightclubs within 4 km645
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 51 points.51
Los AngelesTromso
Score6211
Protected land share 50 km %269
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %8065
Park area within 2 km20 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 19 points.19
Los AngelesTromso
Score3314
Tourist attractions within 2 km119
Park area within 2 km20 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
Los AngelesTromso
Score5428
Notable places within 2 km8820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesTromso
Score4354
Price level global10085.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 54 points.54
Los AngelesTromso
Score8733
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months80
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesTromso
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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

MeasureLos AngelesTromso
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation106 m20 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesTromso
City population3,898,74779,943
People per km²2,99432
Museums within 10 km388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4623
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. 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.