VacationSelector

Bologna or Oslo?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
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.

BolognaOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
BolognaOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2163
Coast distance74 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
BolognaOslo
Score5867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 19 points.19
BolognaOslo
Score6748
Museums within 10 km5870
Museums within 2 km of centre4337
Share of museums within 2 km %7453
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bologna and Oslo are level on 53.
BolognaOslo
Score5353
Drinking venues within 4 km720695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7481
Nightclubs within 4 km3041
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
BolognaOslo
Score3961
Protected land share 50 km %722
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km119 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaOslo
Score5548
Tourist attractions within 2 km3213
Park area within 2 km119 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
BolognaOslo
Score6069
Notable places within 2 km120207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaOslo
Score6854
Price level global64.985.1
Daily budget€155€203
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 19 points.19
BolognaOslo
Score6748
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm40 mm to 104 mm
Dry months50
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 5 m
€101-136
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 118 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
5 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
6 h 30 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaOslo
Official languageItalianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCFL230 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
Elevation54 m23 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaOslo
City population387,971717,710
People per km²2,754
Museums within 10 km6660
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6275
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.