VacationSelector

Cardiff or Oslo?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

CardiffOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 14 points.14
CardiffOslo
Score4660
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km8163
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 7 points.7
CardiffOslo
Score6067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3234
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
CardiffOslo
Score3948
Museums within 10 km6170
Museums within 2 km of centre637
Share of museums within 2 km %1053
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
CardiffOslo
Score4853
Drinking venues within 4 km536695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7481
Nightclubs within 4 km3541
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
CardiffOslo
Score5061
Protected land share 50 km %1822
Landscape blanket share 50 km %151
Land share of disc %6894
Park area within 2 km88 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 16 points.16
CardiffOslo
Score3248
Tourist attractions within 2 km413
Park area within 2 km88 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 24 points.24
CardiffOslo
Score4569
Notable places within 2 km51207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cardiff and Oslo are level on 54.
CardiffOslo
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Cardiff leads by 6 points.6
CardiffOslo
Score5448
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffOslo
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 25 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
4 h 10 m
€238-261
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
BHX · 146 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCardiffOslo
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
Elevation41 m23 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffOslo
City population383,536717,710
People per km²2,734
Museums within 10 km960
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5575
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.