VacationSelector

Oslo or Philadelphia?

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 beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

OsloPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
OsloPhiladelphia
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1631
Coast distance1 km13 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
OsloPhiladelphia
Score6777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8531,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3435
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
OsloPhiladelphia
Score4860
Museums within 10 km7089
Museums within 2 km of centre3748
Share of museums within 2 km %5354
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 6 points.6
OsloPhiladelphia
Score5359
Drinking venues within 4 km695930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8162
Nightclubs within 4 km4141
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 12 points.12
OsloPhiladelphia
Score6149
Protected land share 50 km %2214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9489
Park area within 2 km88 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
OsloPhiladelphia
Score4853
Tourist attractions within 2 km1316
Park area within 2 km88 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
OsloPhiladelphia
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20788
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
OsloPhiladelphia
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
OsloPhiladelphia
Score4860
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm69 mm to 112 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
DohaDOH
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 35 m
€128-170
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasureOsloPhiladelphia
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation23 m12 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloPhiladelphia
City population717,7101,603,797
People per km²4,339
Museums within 10 km6054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7575
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. 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.