VacationSelector

Salzburg or Tromso?

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

Your match

Salzburg
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

SalzburgTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
SalzburgTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km914
Coast distance653 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 25 points.25
SalzburgTromso
Score4924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre34885
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2316
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 37 points.37
SalzburgTromso
Score6023
Museums within 10 km4210
Museums within 2 km of centre278
Share of museums within 2 km %6480
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Salzburg leads by 29 points.29
SalzburgTromso
Score367
Drinking venues within 4 km29467
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre24161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8291
Nightclubs within 4 km165
Nature & day trips. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
SalzburgTromso
Score2711
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km39 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 34 points.34
SalzburgTromso
Score4814
Tourist attractions within 2 km179
Park area within 2 km39 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 18 points.18
SalzburgTromso
Score4628
Notable places within 2 km5420
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
SalzburgTromso
Score5954
Price level global76.985.1
Daily budget€160€203
Year-round weather. Salzburg leads by 21 points.21
SalzburgTromso
Score5433
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2
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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgTromso
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€194-265
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 40 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
3 h 40 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

MeasureSalzburgTromso
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation424 m20 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgTromso
City population155,02179,943
People per km²2,36032
Museums within 10 km388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5023
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.