VacationSelector

Lyon or Tromso?

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

Your match

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

LyonTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
LyonTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2614
Coast distance253 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 55 points.55
LyonTromso
Score7924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,69185
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4016
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 32 points.32
LyonTromso
Score5523
Museums within 10 km5310
Museums within 2 km of centre258
Share of museums within 2 km %4780
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 51 points.51
LyonTromso
Score587
Drinking venues within 4 km86667
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre61161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7191
Nightclubs within 4 km475
Nature & day trips. Lyon leads by 22 points.22
LyonTromso
Score3311
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %69
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km120 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 45 points.45
LyonTromso
Score5914
Tourist attractions within 2 km259
Park area within 2 km120 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 26 points.26
LyonTromso
Score5428
Notable places within 2 km8620
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
LyonTromso
Score6254
Price level global73.785.1
Daily budget€160€203
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 31 points.31
LyonTromso
Score6433
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 40 m
€184-250
1 stop
GVA · 111 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
€138-215
1 stop
GVA · 111 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
3 h 5 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

MeasureLyonTromso
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation160 m20 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonTromso
City population519,12779,943
People per km²10,83832
Museums within 10 km428
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre14823
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.