VacationSelector

Paris or Tromso?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
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.

ParisTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
ParisTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km214
Coast distance149 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 66 points.66
ParisTromso
Score9024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,73285
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3316
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 53 points.53
ParisTromso
Score7623
Museums within 10 km18510
Museums within 2 km of centre658
Share of museums within 2 km %3580
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 81 points.81
ParisTromso
Score887
Drinking venues within 4 km3,79667
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,69461
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4591
Nightclubs within 4 km2015
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 37 points.37
ParisTromso
Score4811
Protected land share 50 km %289
Landscape blanket share 50 km %269
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km82 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 61 points.61
ParisTromso
Score7514
Tourist attractions within 2 km899
Park area within 2 km82 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 66 points.66
ParisTromso
Score9428
Notable places within 2 km86520
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 8 points.8
ParisTromso
Score6254
Price level global73.785.1
Daily budget€160€203
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 33 points.33
ParisTromso
Score6633
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months10
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisTromso
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€150-199
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 10 m
no fares
BVA · 69 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€122-134
CDG · 22 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
€103-125
CDG · 22 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 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 2026-08 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

MeasureParisTromso
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation27 m20 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisTromso
City population2,103,77879,943
People per km²19,96032
Museums within 10 km2518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16923
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.