VacationSelector

Oslo or Rio de Janeiro?

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 places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

OsloRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 40 points.40
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score60100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km16361
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 13 points.13
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score6754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3416
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 21 points.21
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score4869
Museums within 10 km70110
Museums within 2 km of centre3751
Share of museums within 2 km %5346
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro leads by 4 points.4
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score5357
Drinking venues within 4 km695818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8162
Nightclubs within 4 km4150
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 1 points.1
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score6162
Protected land share 50 km %2221
Landscape blanket share 50 km %117
Land share of disc %9457
Park area within 2 km88 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 11 points.11
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score4859
Tourist attractions within 2 km1330
Park area within 2 km88 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 13 points.13
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score6956
Notable places within 2 km20798
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 27 points.27
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score5481
Price level global85.146.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 37 points.37
OsloRio de Janeiro
Score4885
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Rio de Janeiro
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). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloRio de Janeiro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€110-169
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 55 m
€221-254
2 stops
OSL · 37 km
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureOsloRio de Janeiro
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiPortuguese
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation23 m31 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloRio de Janeiro
City population717,7106,211,223
People per km²4,930
Museums within 10 km6070
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7527
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.