VacationSelector

Manchester or Oslo?

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

Your match

Manchester
47
match

Wins on nightlife and 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.

ManchesterOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 32 points.32
ManchesterOslo
Score2860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10163
Coast distance27 km1 km
Water distance27 km1 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 1 points.1
ManchesterOslo
Score6867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
ManchesterOslo
Score4248
Museums within 10 km2370
Museums within 2 km of centre1137
Share of museums within 2 km %4853
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 9 points.9
ManchesterOslo
Score6253
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7781
Nightclubs within 4 km8241
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 25 points.25
ManchesterOslo
Score3661
Protected land share 50 km %1722
Landscape blanket share 50 km %171
Land share of disc %9994
Park area within 2 km63 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 16 points.16
ManchesterOslo
Score3248
Tourist attractions within 2 km513
Park area within 2 km63 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
ManchesterOslo
Score4869
Notable places within 2 km61207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manchester and Oslo are level on 54.
ManchesterOslo
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Manchester leads by 6 points.6
ManchesterOslo
Score5448
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterOslo
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
7 h 40 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

MeasureManchesterOslo
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
Elevation38 m23 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterOslo
City population547,627717,710
People per km²4,737–
Museums within 10 km2860
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6375
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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