VacationSelector

Pisa or Tromso?

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

Your match

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families 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.

PisaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 31 points.31
PisaTromso
Score2152
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km114
Coast distance10 km0 km
Water distance10 km0 km
Places to eat. Pisa leads by 10 points.10
PisaTromso
Score3424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre37985
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km916
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 32 points.32
PisaTromso
Score5523
Museums within 10 km2710
Museums within 2 km of centre228
Share of museums within 2 km %8180
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
PisaTromso
Score287
Drinking venues within 4 km23267
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8891
Nightclubs within 4 km35
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 28 points.28
PisaTromso
Score3911
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6565
Park area within 2 km40 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 33 points.33
PisaTromso
Score4714
Tourist attractions within 2 km209
Park area within 2 km40 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 19 points.19
PisaTromso
Score4728
Notable places within 2 km5820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
PisaTromso
Score6854
Price level global64.985.1
Daily budget€155€203
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 37 points.37
PisaTromso
Score7033
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months20
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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A
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A
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O
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D
Daytime high, °C
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
FLR · 65 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 65 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePisaTromso
Official languageItalianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCFL230 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
Elevation4 m20 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaTromso
City population88,73779,943
People per km²47932
Museums within 10 km278
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2923
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. 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.