VacationSelector

Oslo or Pisa?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

OsloPisa
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 39 points.39
OsloPisa
Score6021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1631
Coast distance1 km10 km
Water distance1 km10 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 33 points.33
OsloPisa
Score6734
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km349
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 7 points.7
OsloPisa
Score4855
Museums within 10 km7027
Museums within 2 km of centre3722
Share of museums within 2 km %5381
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 25 points.25
OsloPisa
Score5328
Drinking venues within 4 km695232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8188
Nightclubs within 4 km413
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
OsloPisa
Score6139
Protected land share 50 km %229
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9465
Park area within 2 km88 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 1 points.1
OsloPisa
Score4847
Tourist attractions within 2 km1320
Park area within 2 km88 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
OsloPisa
Score6947
Notable places within 2 km20758
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
OsloPisa
Score5468
Price level global85.164.9
Daily budget€203€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 22 points.22
OsloPisa
Score4870
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
TRF · 85 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
€101-168
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 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

MeasureOsloPisa
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiItalian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation23 m4 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloPisa
City population717,71088,737
People per km²–479
Museums within 10 km6027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7529
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.