VacationSelector

Berlin or Oslo?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BerlinOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
BerlinOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km17163
Coast distance142 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 3 points.3
BerlinOslo
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3334
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 31 points.31
BerlinOslo
Score7948
Museums within 10 km20070
Museums within 2 km of centre8137
Share of museums within 2 km %4153
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinOslo
Score7653
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3481
Nightclubs within 4 km13541
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 12 points.12
BerlinOslo
Score4961
Protected land share 50 km %2022
Landscape blanket share 50 km %161
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km141 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 28 points.28
BerlinOslo
Score7648
Tourist attractions within 2 km5413
Park area within 2 km141 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 15 points.15
BerlinOslo
Score8469
Notable places within 2 km486207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BerlinOslo
Score6054
Price level global75.985.1
Daily budget€163€203
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 12 points.12
BerlinOslo
Score6048
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 5 m
€57-77
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 40 m
€83-100
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 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

MeasureBerlinOslo
Official languageGermanNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation34 m23 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinOslo
City population3,782,202717,710
People per km²4,244
Museums within 10 km15860
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8675
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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