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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman or Oslo?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amman for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Oslo for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amman 22, Oslo 36: Oslo leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Oslo 55: Amman leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Oslo 48: Oslo leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Oslo 82: Oslo leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Oslo 52: Amman leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Oslo 63: Oslo leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Oslo 14: Amman leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Oslo.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amman
45match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanOslo
Official languageArabicNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation776 m23 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanOslo
City population4,007,526717,710
People per km²2,385-
Museums within 10 km860
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.