VacationSelector

Budapest or Oslo?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BudapestOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
BudapestOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6163
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestOslo
Score7767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 16 points.16
BudapestOslo
Score6448
Museums within 10 km14470
Museums within 2 km of centre6437
Share of museums within 2 km %4453
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 19 points.19
BudapestOslo
Score7253
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6681
Nightclubs within 4 km9741
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
BudapestOslo
Score4061
Protected land share 50 km %822
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km111 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 23 points.23
BudapestOslo
Score7148
Tourist attractions within 2 km7513
Park area within 2 km111 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Budapest and Oslo are level on 69.
BudapestOslo
Score6969
Notable places within 2 km206207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BudapestOslo
Score8054
Price level global4885.1
Daily budget€104€203
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 16 points.16
BudapestOslo
Score6448
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€60-87
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
€64-112
BUD · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€78-91
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
5 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestOslo
Official languageHungarianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m23 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestOslo
City population1,685,209717,710
People per km²3,209
Museums within 10 km8160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.