VacationSelector

Madrid or Tromso?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

MadridTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
MadridTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km414
Coast distance305 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 59 points.59
MadridTromso
Score8324
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,50885
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2816
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 52 points.52
MadridTromso
Score7523
Museums within 10 km9710
Museums within 2 km of centre598
Share of museums within 2 km %6180
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 74 points.74
MadridTromso
Score817
Drinking venues within 4 km2,41467
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,49861
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6291
Nightclubs within 4 km3415
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 52 points.52
MadridTromso
Score6311
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km187 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 63 points.63
MadridTromso
Score7714
Tourist attractions within 2 km619
Park area within 2 km187 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 47 points.47
MadridTromso
Score7528
Notable places within 2 km28820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
MadridTromso
Score7154
Price level global60.885.1
Daily budget€122€203
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 39 points.39
MadridTromso
Score7233
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 5 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
3 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 45 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
€191-243
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 50 m
€151-164
MAD · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
4 h 35 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

MeasureMadridTromso
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, 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 number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation663 m20 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridTromso
City population3,506,73079,943
People per km²5,80132
Museums within 10 km888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre10623
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). 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.