VacationSelector

London or Oslo?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Oslo
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.

LondonOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
LondonOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km47163
Coast distance43 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 21 points.21
LondonOslo
Score8867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4034
Museums & heritage. London leads by 24 points.24
LondonOslo
Score7248
Museums within 10 km14870
Museums within 2 km of centre4937
Share of museums within 2 km %3353
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 42 points.42
LondonOslo
Score9553
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4681
Nightclubs within 4 km31241
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
LondonOslo
Score4061
Protected land share 50 km %1622
Landscape blanket share 50 km %141
Land share of disc %9794
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 27 points.27
LondonOslo
Score7548
Tourist attractions within 2 km8513
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. London leads by 20 points.20
LondonOslo
Score8969
Notable places within 2 km649207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London and Oslo are level on 54.
LondonOslo
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. London leads by 15 points.15
LondonOslo
Score6348
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
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
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonOslo
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 20 m
€66-100
LGW · 40 km
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
10 h 50 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

MeasureLondonOslo
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
Elevation4 m23 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonOslo
City population8,799,728717,710
People per km²5,598–
Museums within 10 km21560
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11675
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.