VacationSelector

Glasgow or Oslo?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

GlasgowOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 24 points.24
GlasgowOslo
Score3660
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3163
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
GlasgowOslo
Score6367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2934
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 3 points.3
GlasgowOslo
Score4548
Museums within 10 km3270
Museums within 2 km of centre1337
Share of museums within 2 km %4153
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 10 points.10
GlasgowOslo
Score6353
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6181
Nightclubs within 4 km7341
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
GlasgowOslo
Score3861
Protected land share 50 km %1622
Landscape blanket share 50 km %121
Land share of disc %9194
Park area within 2 km56 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 7 points.7
GlasgowOslo
Score4148
Tourist attractions within 2 km1313
Park area within 2 km56 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowOslo
Score5369
Notable places within 2 km80207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Glasgow and Oslo are level on 54.
GlasgowOslo
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowOslo
Score4348
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 56 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
7 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
7 h 40 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

MeasureGlasgowOslo
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
Elevation21 m23 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowOslo
City population626,410717,710
People per km²190–
Museums within 10 km2960
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5475
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). 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.