VacationSelector

Gdansk 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, level with your weighting

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

GdanskOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
GdanskOslo
Score5560
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20163
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
GdanskOslo
Score5267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2834
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 9 points.9
GdanskOslo
Score5748
Museums within 10 km4370
Museums within 2 km of centre2837
Share of museums within 2 km %6553
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 17 points.17
GdanskOslo
Score3653
Drinking venues within 4 km269695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7581
Nightclubs within 4 km3041
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 16 points.16
GdanskOslo
Score4561
Protected land share 50 km %1222
Landscape blanket share 50 km %31
Land share of disc %7094
Park area within 2 km61 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 27 points.27
GdanskOslo
Score7548
Tourist attractions within 2 km10813
Park area within 2 km61 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 17 points.17
GdanskOslo
Score5269
Notable places within 2 km76207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
GdanskOslo
Score7954
Price level global4985.1
Daily budget€133€203
Year-round weather. Gdansk leads by 4 points.4
GdanskOslo
Score5248
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm40 mm to 104 mm
Dry months30
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€51-85
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 10 m
€238-261
1 stop
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

MeasureGdanskOslo
Official languagePolishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE50 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
Elevation11 m23 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskOslo
City population487,834717,710
People per km²714–
Museums within 10 km3760
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4875
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). 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. 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.