VacationSelector

Thessaloniki or Tromso?

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

Your match

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips 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.

ThessalonikiTromso
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 3 points.3
ThessalonikiTromso
Score5552
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km414
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 26 points.26
ThessalonikiTromso
Score5024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre64085
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1516
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 26 points.26
ThessalonikiTromso
Score4923
Museums within 10 km3410
Museums within 2 km of centre228
Share of museums within 2 km %6580
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 60 points.60
ThessalonikiTromso
Score677
Drinking venues within 4 km1,40767
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre80561
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5791
Nightclubs within 4 km615
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 54 points.54
ThessalonikiTromso
Score6511
Protected land share 50 km %259
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %8365
Park area within 2 km39 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.27
ThessalonikiTromso
Score4114
Tourist attractions within 2 km169
Park area within 2 km39 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 28 points.28
ThessalonikiTromso
Score5628
Notable places within 2 km9820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
ThessalonikiTromso
Score7454
Price level global55.885.1
Daily budget€125€203
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.39
ThessalonikiTromso
Score7233
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 32.1 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 56 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months90
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3
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. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThessalonikiTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 50 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 15 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 30 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
€138-200
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureThessalonikiTromso
Official languageGreekNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation6 m20 m
Main airportThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureThessalonikiTromso
City population309,61779,943
People per km²16,04232
Museums within 10 km318
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4523
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). 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.