VacationSelector

Toronto or Tromso?

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

Your match

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
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.

TorontoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 9 points.9
TorontoTromso
Score4352
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km5814
Coast distance533 km0 km
Water distance5 km0 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 58 points.58
TorontoTromso
Score8224
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,13385
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3916
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 20 points.20
TorontoTromso
Score4323
Museums within 10 km3510
Museums within 2 km of centre258
Share of museums within 2 km %7180
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 62 points.62
TorontoTromso
Score697
Drinking venues within 4 km1,50067
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre96661
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6491
Nightclubs within 4 km1035
Nature & day trips. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
TorontoTromso
Score2611
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km68 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
TorontoTromso
Score5714
Tourist attractions within 2 km239
Park area within 2 km68 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 33 points.33
TorontoTromso
Score6128
Notable places within 2 km12820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto and Tromso are level on 54.
TorontoTromso
Score5454
Price level global8485.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 22 points.22
TorontoTromso
Score5533
Monthly daytime high-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Toronto
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
Toronto
No sunshine record
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. Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTorontoTromso
CopenhagenCPH
8 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureTorontoTromso
Official languageFrench, EnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation76 m20 m
Main airportToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureTorontoTromso
City population2,794,35679,943
People per km²4,43432
Museums within 10 km328
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre10223
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 monthNone

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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.