VacationSelector

Oslo or Porto?

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

Your match

Oslo
56
match

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

Porto
✓ Best match
62
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.

OsloPorto
Beaches & swimming. Oslo and Porto are level on 60.
OsloPorto
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16352
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 1 points.1
OsloPorto
Score6768
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8531,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3427
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 23 points.23
OsloPorto
Score4871
Museums within 10 km70101
Museums within 2 km of centre3757
Share of museums within 2 km %5356
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Porto leads by 5 points.5
OsloPorto
Score5358
Drinking venues within 4 km695900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8163
Nightclubs within 4 km4138
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 28 points.28
OsloPorto
Score6133
Protected land share 50 km %227
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9461
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 17 points.17
OsloPorto
Score4865
Tourist attractions within 2 km13122
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
OsloPorto
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20785
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 20 points.20
OsloPorto
Score5474
Price level global85.155.9
Daily budget€203€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 23 points.23
OsloPorto
Score4871
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Porto
10
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€110-169
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 55 m
€221-254
2 stops
OSL · 37 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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 2026-09 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

MeasureOsloPorto
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiPortuguese
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation23 m104 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloPorto
City population717,710231,800
People per km²5,599
Museums within 10 km6042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7570
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.