VacationSelector

Tromso or Vienna?

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

Your match

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

TromsoVienna
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
TromsoVienna
Score520
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1422
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 53 points.53
TromsoVienna
Score2477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre851,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1637
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 58 points.58
TromsoVienna
Score2381
Museums within 10 km10192
Museums within 2 km of centre8110
Share of museums within 2 km %8057
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 67 points.67
TromsoVienna
Score774
Drinking venues within 4 km671,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9156
Nightclubs within 4 km5108
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 21 points.21
TromsoVienna
Score1132
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km7 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 55 points.55
TromsoVienna
Score1469
Tourist attractions within 2 km946
Park area within 2 km7 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 47 points.47
TromsoVienna
Score2875
Notable places within 2 km20287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
TromsoVienna
Score5459
Price level global85.176.9
Daily budget€203€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 28 points.28
TromsoVienna
Score3361
Monthly daytime high-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall56 mm to 128 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTromsoVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 18 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BTS · 62 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€111-165
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 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

MeasureTromsoVienna
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation20 m151 m
Main airportTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureTromsoVienna
City population79,9432,028,289
People per km²324,890
Museums within 10 km8152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre23113
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.