VacationSelector

Split or Tromso?

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

Your match

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

SplitTromso
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 21 points.21
SplitTromso
Score7352
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km8714
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Split leads by 14 points.14
SplitTromso
Score3824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre26885
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1516
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 29 points.29
SplitTromso
Score5223
Museums within 10 km1810
Museums within 2 km of centre168
Share of museums within 2 km %8980
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Split leads by 34 points.34
SplitTromso
Score417
Drinking venues within 4 km37967
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre26361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6991
Nightclubs within 4 km235
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 27 points.27
SplitTromso
Score3811
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6265
Park area within 2 km30 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Split leads by 12 points.12
SplitTromso
Score2614
Tourist attractions within 2 km99
Park area within 2 km30 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Split leads by 14 points.14
SplitTromso
Score4228
Notable places within 2 km4320
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 26 points.26
SplitTromso
Score8054
Price level global48.585.1
Daily budget€138€203
Year-round weather. Split leads by 36 points.36
SplitTromso
Score6933
Monthly daytime high10.7 °C to 31 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 117 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months20
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Split
9
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSplitTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 0 m
€232-306
2 stops
SPU · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 109 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€171-200
SPU · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
3 h 5 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

MeasureSplitTromso
Official languageCroatianNorwegian, 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
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitTromso
City population160,57779,943
People per km²32
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre3123
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.