VacationSelector

Calgary or Oslo?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
CalgaryOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4163
Coast distance649 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryOslo
Score6667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3634
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 39 points.39
CalgaryOslo
Score948
Museums within 10 km870
Museums within 2 km of centre337
Share of museums within 2 km %3853
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryOslo
Score4453
Drinking venues within 4 km465695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7481
Nightclubs within 4 km1941
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 25 points.25
CalgaryOslo
Score3661
Protected land share 50 km %422
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km142 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryOslo
Score4148
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km142 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 30 points.30
CalgaryOslo
Score3969
Notable places within 2 km37207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary and Oslo are level on 54.
CalgaryOslo
Score5454
Price level global8485.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Calgary leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryOslo
Score5748
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm40 mm to 104 mm
Dry months80
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 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

MeasureCalgaryOslo
Official languageFrench, EnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation1,045 m23 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryOslo
City population1,306,784717,710
People per km²1,583
Museums within 10 km1360
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6775
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). 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. 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.