VacationSelector

Lucerne or Oslo?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LucerneOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
LucerneOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16163
Coast distance669 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 20 points.20
LucerneOslo
Score4767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2534
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 8 points.8
LucerneOslo
Score4048
Museums within 10 km2370
Museums within 2 km of centre1337
Share of museums within 2 km %5753
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 25 points.25
LucerneOslo
Score2853
Drinking venues within 4 km202695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7581
Nightclubs within 4 km1141
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 36 points.36
LucerneOslo
Score2561
Protected land share 50 km %722
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km29 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 10 points.10
LucerneOslo
Score3848
Tourist attractions within 2 km1513
Park area within 2 km29 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 34 points.34
LucerneOslo
Score3569
Notable places within 2 km29207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 19 points.19
LucerneOslo
Score3554
Price level global110.585.1
Daily budget€248€203
Year-round weather. Lucerne leads by 5 points.5
LucerneOslo
Score5348
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureLucerneOslo
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
Elevation436 m23 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneOslo
City population86,234717,710
People per km²2,963
Museums within 10 km1460
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4675
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.