VacationSelector

Stockholm or Tromso?

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

Your match

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

StockholmTromso
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 8 points.8
StockholmTromso
Score6052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km7314
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 52 points.52
StockholmTromso
Score7624
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,55885
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3616
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 46 points.46
StockholmTromso
Score6923
Museums within 10 km7410
Museums within 2 km of centre478
Share of museums within 2 km %6480
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 57 points.57
StockholmTromso
Score647
Drinking venues within 4 km1,09067
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre68961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6391
Nightclubs within 4 km1065
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 30 points.30
StockholmTromso
Score4111
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %7765
Park area within 2 km104 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 43 points.43
StockholmTromso
Score5714
Tourist attractions within 2 km239
Park area within 2 km104 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 51 points.51
StockholmTromso
Score7928
Notable places within 2 km35720
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
StockholmTromso
Score5754
Price level global80.385.1
Daily budget€169€203
Year-round weather. Stockholm leads by 20 points.20
StockholmTromso
Score5333
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months50
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
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. Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmTromso
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 20 m
€39-52
ARN · 36 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 25 m
€172-250
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
€88-97
ARN · 36 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 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

MeasureStockholmTromso
Official languageSwedishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)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
Elevation22 m20 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmTromso
City population984,74879,943
People per km²5,26032
Museums within 10 km2668
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre8123
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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. 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.