VacationSelector

Tokyo or Tromso?

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

Your match

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

TokyoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 31 points.31
TokyoTromso
Score2152
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km114
Coast distance5 km0 km
Water distance5 km0 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 66 points.66
TokyoTromso
Score9024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,93685
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2516
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 43 points.43
TokyoTromso
Score6623
Museums within 10 km30210
Museums within 2 km of centre528
Share of museums within 2 km %1780
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 88 points.88
TokyoTromso
Score957
Drinking venues within 4 km6,89567
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3,03361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4491
Nightclubs within 4 km585
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 47 points.47
TokyoTromso
Score5811
Protected land share 50 km %—9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %8565
Park area within 2 km85 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 57 points.57
TokyoTromso
Score7114
Tourist attractions within 2 km409
Park area within 2 km85 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km90
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 32 points.32
TokyoTromso
Score6028
Notable places within 2 km12120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 16 points.16
TokyoTromso
Score7054
Price level global62.485.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 31 points.31
TokyoTromso
Score6433
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 31.5 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6
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. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTokyoTromso
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 50 m
€1,071-1283
1 stop
HND · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 55 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 15 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureTokyoTromso
Official languageJapaneseNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyYen (JPY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation6 m20 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureTokyoTromso
City population14,264,79879,943
People per km²6,50132
Museums within 10 km1918
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre12523
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). 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.