VacationSelector

Tromso or Yokohama?

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.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

TromsoYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 3 points.3
TromsoYokohama
Score5249
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km142
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 54 points.54
TromsoYokohama
Score2478
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1624
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 30 points.30
TromsoYokohama
Score2353
Museums within 10 km1057
Museums within 2 km of centre831
Share of museums within 2 km %8054
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 67 points.67
TromsoYokohama
Score774
Drinking venues within 4 km672,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9164
Nightclubs within 4 km533
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 47 points.47
TromsoYokohama
Score1158
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %6567
Park area within 2 km7 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 44 points.44
TromsoYokohama
Score1458
Tourist attractions within 2 km916
Park area within 2 km7 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
TromsoYokohama
Score2844
Notable places within 2 km2049
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
TromsoYokohama
Score5470
Price level global85.162.4
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 30 points.30
TromsoYokohama
Score3363
Monthly daytime high-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall56 mm to 128 mm46 mm to 219 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
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromTromsoYokohama
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
9 h 50 m
€1,071-1283
1 stop
HND · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureTromsoYokohama
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiJapanese
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110Police 110, fire 119
Elevation20 m24 m
Main airportTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureTromsoYokohama
City population79,9433,757,630
People per km²328,585
Museums within 10 km838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2366
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.