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A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende or Tromso?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. San Miguel de Allende 4, Tromso 8: Tromso leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Tromso 36: San Miguel de Allende leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Tromso 27: San Miguel de Allende leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende and Tromso are level on 38.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 52 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Tromso 14: San Miguel de Allende leads by 63 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Tromso 45: Tromso leads by 13 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Tromso 15: San Miguel de Allende leads by 40 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Tromso 11: San Miguel de Allende leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Tromso 32: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Tromso 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Tromso.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on day trips and shopping with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeTromso
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation1,900 m20 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeTromso
City population69,81179,943
People per km²-32
Museums within 10 km28
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.