VacationSelector

Shanghai or Tromso?

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

Your match

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

ShanghaiTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 35 points.35
ShanghaiTromso
Score1752
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance18 km0 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 22 points.22
ShanghaiTromso
Score4523
Museums within 10 km10810
Museums within 2 km of centre288
Share of museums within 2 km %2680
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 31 points.31
ShanghaiTromso
Score4211
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %8265
Park area within 2 km83 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 67 points.67
ShanghaiTromso
Score8114
Tourist attractions within 2 km869
Park area within 2 km83 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km100
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 23 points.23
ShanghaiTromso
Score5128
Notable places within 2 km7320
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 25 points.25
ShanghaiTromso
Score7954
Price level global4985.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 32 points.32
ShanghaiTromso
Score6533
Monthly daytime high8.5 °C to 33.2 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 216 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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Daytime high, °C
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
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. Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromShanghaiTromso
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 20 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
9 h 50 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
3 h 30 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

MeasureShanghaiTromso
Official languagePutonghuaNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation4 m20 m
Main airportShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureShanghaiTromso
City population24,870,89579,943
People per km²3,92232
Museums within 10 km448
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6423
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). 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.