VacationSelector

Ghent or Oslo?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
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.

GhentOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 34 points.34
GhentOslo
Score2660
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km8163
Coast distance32 km1 km
Water distance32 km1 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
GhentOslo
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4934
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 10 points.10
GhentOslo
Score5848
Museums within 10 km2470
Museums within 2 km of centre2037
Share of museums within 2 km %8353
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
GhentOslo
Score4953
Drinking venues within 4 km570695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7881
Nightclubs within 4 km2641
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 27 points.27
GhentOslo
Score3461
Protected land share 50 km %722
Landscape blanket share 50 km %41
Land share of disc %8794
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
GhentOslo
Score5048
Tourist attractions within 2 km1913
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
GhentOslo
Score4669
Notable places within 2 km55207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
GhentOslo
Score6054
Price level global76.285.1
Daily budget€180€203
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
GhentOslo
Score5648
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm40 mm to 104 mm
Dry months10
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentOslo
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 56 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
3 h 30 m
€110-169
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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 2026-09 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

MeasureGhentOslo
Official languageFrench, German, DutchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation12 m23 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentOslo
City population272,657717,710
People per km²1,728–
Museums within 10 km3060
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8375
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.