VacationSelector

Porto or Tromso?

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

Your match

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

PortoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 8 points.8
PortoTromso
Score6052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km5214
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 44 points.44
PortoTromso
Score6824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,17285
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2716
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 48 points.48
PortoTromso
Score7123
Museums within 10 km10110
Museums within 2 km of centre578
Share of museums within 2 km %5680
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Porto leads by 51 points.51
PortoTromso
Score587
Drinking venues within 4 km90067
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57061
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6391
Nightclubs within 4 km385
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 22 points.22
PortoTromso
Score3311
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6165
Park area within 2 km30 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 51 points.51
PortoTromso
Score6514
Tourist attractions within 2 km1229
Park area within 2 km30 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 26 points.26
PortoTromso
Score5428
Notable places within 2 km8520
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 20 points.20
PortoTromso
Score7454
Price level global55.985.1
Daily budget€109€203
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 38 points.38
PortoTromso
Score7133
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months30
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPortoTromso
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
3 h 5 m
€181-245
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
3 h 5 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

MeasurePortoTromso
Official languagePortugueseNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation104 m20 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoTromso
City population231,80079,943
People per km²5,59932
Museums within 10 km428
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7023
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.