VacationSelector

Seattle or Tromso?

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

Your match

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on value for money 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.

SeattleTromso
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
SeattleTromso
Score6052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10014
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 51 points.51
SeattleTromso
Score7524
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,46085
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3516
Museums & heritage. Seattle leads by 13 points.13
SeattleTromso
Score3623
Museums within 10 km2810
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %6180
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 50 points.50
SeattleTromso
Score577
Drinking venues within 4 km87367
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre69661
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8091
Nightclubs within 4 km345
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 29 points.29
SeattleTromso
Score4011
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %8065
Park area within 2 km63 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 32 points.32
SeattleTromso
Score4614
Tourist attractions within 2 km179
Park area within 2 km63 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 24 points.24
SeattleTromso
Score5228
Notable places within 2 km7620
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 11 points.11
SeattleTromso
Score4354
Price level global10085.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 28 points.28
SeattleTromso
Score6133
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
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
Seattle
No sunshine record
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. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
DublinDUB
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 15 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

MeasureSeattleTromso
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation40 m20 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleTromso
City population737,01579,943
People per km²1,99632
Museums within 10 km278
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7823
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). 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. 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. 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.