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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Oslo for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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. La Romana 84, Oslo 36: La Romana leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Oslo 55: Oslo leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Oslo 48: Oslo leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Oslo 82: Oslo leads by 20 points.
Day trips. La Romana and Oslo are level on 52.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Oslo 63: Oslo leads by 7 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 61 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 22 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Oslo 14: La Romana leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Oslo.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around 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.

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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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Where the figures come from

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaOslo
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation10 m23 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaOslo
City population139,238717,710
People per km²512-
Museums within 10 km060
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.