VacationSelector

Maastricht or Oslo?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

MaastrichtOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
MaastrichtOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6163
Coast distance118 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 19 points.19
MaastrichtOslo
Score4867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2234
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 5 points.5
MaastrichtOslo
Score5348
Museums within 10 km2370
Museums within 2 km of centre1337
Share of museums within 2 km %5753
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
MaastrichtOslo
Score3053
Drinking venues within 4 km223695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8281
Nightclubs within 4 km1341
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 24 points.24
MaastrichtOslo
Score3761
Protected land share 50 km %1922
Landscape blanket share 50 km %111
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km33 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtOslo
Score4648
Tourist attractions within 2 km1513
Park area within 2 km33 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 33 points.33
MaastrichtOslo
Score3669
Notable places within 2 km32207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
MaastrichtOslo
Score5854
Price level global79.285.1
Daily budget€181€203
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtOslo
Score5948
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 85 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 85 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 10 m
€47-64
OSL · 37 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
2 h 25 m
€110-147
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€51-85
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
6 h 30 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMaastrichtOslo
Official languageDutchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation49 m23 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtOslo
City population120,227717,710
People per km²2,000
Museums within 10 km2160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3375
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). 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. 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. 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.