VacationSelector

Manchester or Tromso?

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

Your match

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

ManchesterTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 24 points.24
ManchesterTromso
Score2852
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1014
Coast distance27 km0 km
Water distance27 km0 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 44 points.44
ManchesterTromso
Score6824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre85385
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3516
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 19 points.19
ManchesterTromso
Score4223
Museums within 10 km2310
Museums within 2 km of centre118
Share of museums within 2 km %4880
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 55 points.55
ManchesterTromso
Score627
Drinking venues within 4 km1,02967
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre79261
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7791
Nightclubs within 4 km825
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 25 points.25
ManchesterTromso
Score3611
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %179
Land share of disc %9965
Park area within 2 km63 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 18 points.18
ManchesterTromso
Score3214
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km63 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 20 points.20
ManchesterTromso
Score4828
Notable places within 2 km6120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manchester and Tromso are level on 54.
ManchesterTromso
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Manchester leads by 21 points.21
ManchesterTromso
Score5433
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterTromso
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 55 m
€352-493
2 stops
MAN · 15 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 0 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureManchesterTromso
Official languageEnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation38 m20 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterTromso
City population547,62779,943
People per km²4,73732
Museums within 10 km288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6323
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.