VacationSelector

Lucerne or Tromso?

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

Your match

Lucerne
✓ Best match
33
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

LucerneTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
LucerneTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1614
Coast distance669 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 23 points.23
LucerneTromso
Score4724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre26985
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2516
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 17 points.17
LucerneTromso
Score4023
Museums within 10 km2310
Museums within 2 km of centre138
Share of museums within 2 km %5780
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Lucerne leads by 21 points.21
LucerneTromso
Score287
Drinking venues within 4 km20267
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre15161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7591
Nightclubs within 4 km115
Nature & day trips. Lucerne leads by 14 points.14
LucerneTromso
Score2511
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km29 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Lucerne leads by 24 points.24
LucerneTromso
Score3814
Tourist attractions within 2 km159
Park area within 2 km29 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Lucerne leads by 7 points.7
LucerneTromso
Score3528
Notable places within 2 km2920
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 19 points.19
LucerneTromso
Score3554
Price level global110.585.1
Daily budget€248€203
Year-round weather. Lucerne leads by 20 points.20
LucerneTromso
Score5333
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLucerneTromso
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
Elevation436 m20 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneTromso
City population86,23479,943
People per km²2,96332
Museums within 10 km148
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4623
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.