VacationSelector

Dublin or Oslo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Dublin
55
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

DublinOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
DublinOslo
Score4960
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11163
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinOslo
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3734
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 7 points.7
DublinOslo
Score5548
Museums within 10 km4770
Museums within 2 km of centre3737
Share of museums within 2 km %7953
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinOslo
Score6453
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7581
Nightclubs within 4 km4041
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 35 points.35
DublinOslo
Score2661
Protected land share 50 km %322
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6294
Park area within 2 km43 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
DublinOslo
Score5448
Tourist attractions within 2 km4113
Park area within 2 km43 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 7 points.7
DublinOslo
Score6269
Notable places within 2 km141207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinOslo
Score5754
Price level global80.285.1
Daily budget€187€203
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
DublinOslo
Score5448
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 10 m
€86-108
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
7 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinOslo
Official languageEnglish, IrishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation20 m23 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinOslo
City population592,713717,710
People per km²5,154–
Museums within 10 km4060
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7475
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). 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. 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.