VacationSelector

Malaga or Tromso?

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

Your match

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MalagaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 14 points.14
MalagaTromso
Score6652
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2114
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 45 points.45
MalagaTromso
Score6924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,00285
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3416
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 30 points.30
MalagaTromso
Score5323
Museums within 10 km4010
Museums within 2 km of centre358
Share of museums within 2 km %8880
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 47 points.47
MalagaTromso
Score547
Drinking venues within 4 km71567
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre48661
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6891
Nightclubs within 4 km455
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 32 points.32
MalagaTromso
Score4311
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6365
Park area within 2 km85 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 39 points.39
MalagaTromso
Score5314
Tourist attractions within 2 km339
Park area within 2 km85 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
MalagaTromso
Score3728
Notable places within 2 km3320
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
MalagaTromso
Score7154
Price level global60.885.1
Daily budget€122€203
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 49 points.49
MalagaTromso
Score8233
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months50
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
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. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 35 m
€198-239
2 stops
AGP · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
3 h 45 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 35 m
€147-204
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
3 h 20 m
€141-206
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 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

MeasureMalagaTromso
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
Elevation18 m20 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaTromso
City population599,06379,943
People per km²1,51732
Museums within 10 km328
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6523
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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). 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. 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.