VacationSelector

Rome or Tromso?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

RomeTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 19 points.19
RomeTromso
Score3352
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km314
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 36 points.36
RomeTromso
Score6024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,24185
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1016
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 61 points.61
RomeTromso
Score8423
Museums within 10 km16110
Museums within 2 km of centre798
Share of museums within 2 km %4980
Unesco sites within 50 km70
Nightlife. Rome leads by 67 points.67
RomeTromso
Score747
Drinking venues within 4 km2,02267
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre91261
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4591
Nightclubs within 4 km855
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 59 points.59
RomeTromso
Score7011
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %7865
Park area within 2 km172 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 72 points.72
RomeTromso
Score8614
Tourist attractions within 2 km1269
Park area within 2 km172 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 71 points.71
RomeTromso
Score9928
Notable places within 2 km1,12520
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 14 points.14
RomeTromso
Score6854
Price level global64.985.1
Daily budget€155€203
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 38 points.38
RomeTromso
Score7133
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 20 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 25 m
no fares
CIA · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€96-147
FCO · 23 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 30 m
€64-109
FCO · 23 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 5 m
€120-189
FCO · 23 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 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

MeasureRomeTromso
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
Elevation21 m20 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeTromso
City population2,748,10979,943
People per km²2,13532
Museums within 10 km1778
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km70
Distinct cuisines in the centre6523
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.