VacationSelector

Oslo or Paphos?

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

Your match

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and 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.

OsloPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 19 points.19
OsloPaphos
Score6079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km16327
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
OsloPaphos
Score6744
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3422
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 26 points.26
OsloPaphos
Score4822
Museums within 10 km708
Museums within 2 km of centre373
Share of museums within 2 km %5338
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
OsloPaphos
Score5330
Drinking venues within 4 km695224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8172
Nightclubs within 4 km4111
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 38 points.38
OsloPaphos
Score6123
Protected land share 50 km %222
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9433
Park area within 2 km88 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
OsloPaphos
Score4842
Tourist attractions within 2 km1330
Park area within 2 km88 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 50 points.50
OsloPaphos
Score6919
Notable places within 2 km20712
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 16 points.16
OsloPaphos
Score5470
Price level global85.161.4
Daily budget€203€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 38 points.38
OsloPaphos
Score4886
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€51-85
OSL · 37 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 10 m
€47-64
OSL · 37 km
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 25 m
€110-147
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 8 km
DohaDOH
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 110 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

MeasureOsloPaphos
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation23 m72 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloPaphos
City population717,71035,961
People per km²1,987
Museums within 10 km604
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7536
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

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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). 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. 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.