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Tromso or West Palm Beach?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

TromsoWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 36 points.36
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score5288
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1410
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.13
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score2437
Restaurants within 2 km of centre85262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1614
Museums & heritage. Tromso leads by 6 points.6
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score2317
Museums within 10 km105
Museums within 2 km of centre83
Share of museums within 2 km %8060
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.13
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score720
Drinking venues within 4 km67132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6190
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9168
Nightclubs within 4 km510
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 58 points.58
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score1169
Protected land share 50 km %915
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %6545
Park area within 2 km7 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. West Palm Beach leads by 7 points.7
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score1421
Tourist attractions within 2 km93
Park area within 2 km7 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tromso leads by 16 points.16
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score2812
Notable places within 2 km208
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 11 points.11
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 42 points.42
TromsoWest Palm Beach
Score3375
Monthly daytime high-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall56 mm to 128 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTromsoWest Palm Beach
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureTromsoWest Palm Beach
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation20 m6 m
Main airportTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTromsoWest Palm Beach
City population79,943117,415
People per km²32786
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2318
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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.