VacationSelector

Milan or Oslo?

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

Your match

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

MilanOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
MilanOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4163
Coast distance120 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 3 points.3
MilanOslo
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,991853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 26 points.26
MilanOslo
Score7448
Museums within 10 km8770
Museums within 2 km of centre5537
Share of museums within 2 km %6353
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Milan leads by 22 points.22
MilanOslo
Score7553
Drinking venues within 4 km2,215695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4381
Nightclubs within 4 km7041
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 4 points.4
MilanOslo
Score6561
Protected land share 50 km %3022
Landscape blanket share 50 km %111
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km102 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 29 points.29
MilanOslo
Score7748
Tourist attractions within 2 km7613
Park area within 2 km102 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 5 points.5
MilanOslo
Score7469
Notable places within 2 km266207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 14 points.14
MilanOslo
Score6854
Price level global64.985.1
Daily budget€155€203
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 16 points.16
MilanOslo
Score6448
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Milan
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMilanOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 40 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
BGY · 46 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 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

MeasureMilanOslo
Official languageItalianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCFL230 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
Elevation138 m23 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanOslo
City population1,354,196717,710
People per km²7,453–
Museums within 10 km8760
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre7975
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). 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.