VacationSelector

New York or Tromso?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on value for money 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.

New YorkTromso
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 12 points.12
New YorkTromso
Score6452
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1714
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 71 points.71
New YorkTromso
Score9524
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,03285
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3816
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 37 points.37
New YorkTromso
Score6023
Museums within 10 km11910
Museums within 2 km of centre318
Share of museums within 2 km %2680
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 82 points.82
New YorkTromso
Score897
Drinking venues within 4 km4,15967
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,01561
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4891
Nightclubs within 4 km1925
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 28 points.28
New YorkTromso
Score3911
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6965
Park area within 2 km134 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 58 points.58
New YorkTromso
Score7214
Tourist attractions within 2 km379
Park area within 2 km134 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. New York leads by 46 points.46
New YorkTromso
Score7428
Notable places within 2 km26820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 11 points.11
New YorkTromso
Score4354
Price level global10085.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. New York leads by 25 points.25
New YorkTromso
Score5833
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkTromso
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
8 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
8 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 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 2026-08 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

MeasureNew YorkTromso
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation25 m20 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkTromso
City population8,804,19079,943
People per km²7,25632
Museums within 10 km1578
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre13223
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). 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.