VacationSelector

Sydney or Tromso?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

SydneyTromso
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 8 points.8
SydneyTromso
Score6052
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km16014
Coast distance7 km0 km
Water distance7 km0 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 54 points.54
SydneyTromso
Score7824
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,20585
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3116
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 28 points.28
SydneyTromso
Score5123
Museums within 10 km4410
Museums within 2 km of centre208
Share of museums within 2 km %4580
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 68 points.68
SydneyTromso
Score757
Drinking venues within 4 km2,05067
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,40561
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6991
Nightclubs within 4 km1205
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 47 points.47
SydneyTromso
Score5811
Protected land share 50 km %109
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %5265
Park area within 2 km115 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 50 points.50
SydneyTromso
Score6414
Tourist attractions within 2 km379
Park area within 2 km115 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 32 points.32
SydneyTromso
Score6028
Notable places within 2 km12320
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 4 points.4
SydneyTromso
Score5054
Price level global90.285.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 48 points.48
SydneyTromso
Score8133
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
3 h 35 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

MeasureSydneyTromso
Official languageEnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation6 m20 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyTromso
City population5,450,49679,943
People per km²44932
Museums within 10 km388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre7923
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.