VacationSelector

Belfast or Oslo?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BelfastOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 12 points.12
BelfastOslo
Score4860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10163
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
BelfastOslo
Score5667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3134
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 19 points.19
BelfastOslo
Score2948
Museums within 10 km1870
Museums within 2 km of centre637
Share of museums within 2 km %3353
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
BelfastOslo
Score4853
Drinking venues within 4 km550695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6381
Nightclubs within 4 km2941
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 8 points.8
BelfastOslo
Score5361
Protected land share 50 km %1922
Landscape blanket share 50 km %131
Land share of disc %6594
Park area within 2 km68 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Belfast and Oslo are level on 48.
BelfastOslo
Score4848
Tourist attractions within 2 km1613
Park area within 2 km68 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 27 points.27
BelfastOslo
Score4269
Notable places within 2 km43207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast and Oslo are level on 54.
BelfastOslo
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Belfast leads by 3 points.3
BelfastOslo
Score5148
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm40 mm to 104 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 10 m
€86-108
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
7 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
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

MeasureBelfastOslo
Official languageEnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation3 m23 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastOslo
City population345,006717,710
People per km²3,000
Museums within 10 km860
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4475
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.