VacationSelector

Tromso or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

TromsoVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 8 points.8
TromsoVancouver
Score5260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14109
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 50 points.50
TromsoVancouver
Score2474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre851,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1635
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
TromsoVancouver
Score2334
Museums within 10 km1027
Museums within 2 km of centre815
Share of museums within 2 km %8056
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 50 points.50
TromsoVancouver
Score757
Drinking venues within 4 km67848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre61602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9171
Nightclubs within 4 km544
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 66 points.66
TromsoVancouver
Score1177
Protected land share 50 km %919
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %6560
Park area within 2 km7 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 39 points.39
TromsoVancouver
Score1453
Tourist attractions within 2 km915
Park area within 2 km7 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 20 points.20
TromsoVancouver
Score2848
Notable places within 2 km2063
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso and Vancouver are level on 54.
TromsoVancouver
Score5454
Price level global85.184
Daily budget€203—
Year-round weather. Vancouver leads by 20 points.20
TromsoVancouver
Score3353
Monthly daytime high-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall56 mm to 128 mm42 mm to 245 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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTromsoVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureTromsoVancouver
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench, English
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation20 m2 m
Main airportTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTromsoVancouver
City population79,943662,248
People per km²325,759
Museums within 10 km826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2385
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. 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.