VacationSelector

Orlando or Tromso?

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

Your match

Orlando
✓ Best match
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

OrlandoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
OrlandoTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km114
Coast distance68 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Orlando leads by 24 points.24
OrlandoTromso
Score4824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre36585
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2116
Museums & heritage. Tromso leads by 15 points.15
OrlandoTromso
Score823
Museums within 10 km1110
Museums within 2 km of centre28
Share of museums within 2 km %1880
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 34 points.34
OrlandoTromso
Score417
Drinking venues within 4 km34467
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre21661
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6391
Nightclubs within 4 km395
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 33 points.33
OrlandoTromso
Score4411
Protected land share 50 km %159
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km52 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 75 points.75
OrlandoTromso
Score8914
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km200
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares7 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km9
Sights concentration. Tromso leads by 12 points.12
OrlandoTromso
Score1628
Notable places within 2 km1020
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 11 points.11
OrlandoTromso
Score4354
Price level global10085.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 41 points.41
OrlandoTromso
Score7433
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
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. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 10 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

MeasureOrlandoTromso
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
Elevation34 m20 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoTromso
City population334,85479,943
People per km²1,08632
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3023
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.