VacationSelector

Maastricht or Tromso?

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

Your match

Maastricht
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

MaastrichtTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
MaastrichtTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km614
Coast distance118 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 24 points.24
MaastrichtTromso
Score4824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre33885
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 30 points.30
MaastrichtTromso
Score5323
Museums within 10 km2310
Museums within 2 km of centre138
Share of museums within 2 km %5780
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 23 points.23
MaastrichtTromso
Score307
Drinking venues within 4 km22367
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre18261
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8291
Nightclubs within 4 km135
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtTromso
Score3711
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %119
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km33 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 32 points.32
MaastrichtTromso
Score4614
Tourist attractions within 2 km159
Park area within 2 km33 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Maastricht leads by 8 points.8
MaastrichtTromso
Score3628
Notable places within 2 km3220
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
MaastrichtTromso
Score5854
Price level global79.285.1
Daily budget€181€203
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtTromso
Score5933
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
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A
M
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D
Daytime high, °C
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 85 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 85 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 85 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€115-161
1 stop
BRU · 85 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMaastrichtTromso
Official languageDutchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation49 m20 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtTromso
City population120,22779,943
People per km²2,00032
Museums within 10 km218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3323
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.