VacationSelector

Nice or Oslo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Nice
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

NiceOslo
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 13 points.13
NiceOslo
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km70163
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 2 points.2
NiceOslo
Score6967
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,231853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2834
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
NiceOslo
Score4648
Museums within 10 km2770
Museums within 2 km of centre1437
Share of museums within 2 km %5253
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
NiceOslo
Score4453
Drinking venues within 4 km428695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9181
Nightclubs within 4 km2641
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
NiceOslo
Score5761
Protected land share 50 km %2422
Landscape blanket share 50 km %201
Land share of disc %6294
Park area within 2 km56 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 18 points.18
NiceOslo
Score3048
Tourist attractions within 2 km413
Park area within 2 km56 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
NiceOslo
Score4769
Notable places within 2 km60207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 8 points.8
NiceOslo
Score6254
Price level global73.785.1
Daily budget€160€203
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 26 points.26
NiceOslo
Score7448
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm40 mm to 104 mm
Dry months30
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceOslo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 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

MeasureNiceOslo
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation0 m23 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceOslo
City population357,737717,710
People per km²4,975
Museums within 10 km1660
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6575
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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). 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. 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.