VacationSelector

Bangkok or Oslo?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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.

BangkokOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 20 points.20
BangkokOslo
Score4060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km0163
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
BangkokOslo
Score8367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2634
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
BangkokOslo
Score4648
Museums within 10 km10370
Museums within 2 km of centre3037
Share of museums within 2 km %2953
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 30 points.30
BangkokOslo
Score8353
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4181
Nightclubs within 4 km7241
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 10 points.10
BangkokOslo
Score5161
Protected land share 50 km %—22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8394
Park area within 2 km42 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 9 points.9
BangkokOslo
Score5748
Tourist attractions within 2 km3113
Park area within 2 km42 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
BangkokOslo
Score4869
Notable places within 2 km62207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 39 points.39
BangkokOslo
Score9354
Price level global29.785.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
BangkokOslo
Score5648
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm40 mm to 104 mm
Dry months30
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 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

MeasureBangkokOslo
Official languageThaiNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyBaht (THB)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation2 m23 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokOslo
City population5,676,648717,710
People per km²3,619–
Museums within 10 km5960
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9175
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.