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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Interlaken or Oslo?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Interlaken for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’s own page.

Choose Oslo for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Interlaken 30, Oslo 36: Oslo leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Oslo 55: Oslo leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Oslo 48: Oslo leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Oslo 82: Interlaken leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Oslo 52: Interlaken leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Oslo 63: Interlaken leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Oslo 14: Oslo leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Oslo.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InterlakenOslo

Where the figures come from

Interlaken has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenOslo
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCJ230 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
Elevation571 m23 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenOslo
City population6,123717,710
People per km²1,424-
Museums within 10 km360
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.