VacationSelector

Mexico City or Tromso?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

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

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

Mexico CityTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
Mexico CityTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km414
Coast distance247 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 42 points.42
Mexico CityTromso
Score6624
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,17985
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1516
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 56 points.56
Mexico CityTromso
Score7923
Museums within 10 km13810
Museums within 2 km of centre658
Share of museums within 2 km %4780
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 71 points.71
Mexico CityTromso
Score787
Drinking venues within 4 km2,15667
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre92661
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4391
Nightclubs within 4 km1985
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 52 points.52
Mexico CityTromso
Score6311
Protected land share 50 km %309
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km32 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
Mexico CityTromso
Score5014
Tourist attractions within 2 km239
Park area within 2 km32 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
Mexico CityTromso
Score5428
Notable places within 2 km8820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityTromso
Score7654
Price level global54.285.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 57 points.57
Mexico CityTromso
Score9033
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months60
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
4 h 45 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

MeasureMexico CityTromso
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation2,240 m20 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityTromso
City population9,209,94479,943
People per km²6,20232
Museums within 10 km1088
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5023
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.