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Oslo or San Diego?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Oslo
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

San Diego
58
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families 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.

OsloSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 3 points.3
OsloSan Diego
Score6063
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km16342
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
OsloSan Diego
Score6763
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3427
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
OsloSan Diego
Score4844
Museums within 10 km7059
Museums within 2 km of centre3730
Share of museums within 2 km %5351
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 3 points.3
OsloSan Diego
Score5350
Drinking venues within 4 km695615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8166
Nightclubs within 4 km4131
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
OsloSan Diego
Score6155
Protected land share 50 km %226
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9452
Park area within 2 km88 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 27 points.27
OsloSan Diego
Score4875
Tourist attractions within 2 km1340
Park area within 2 km88 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 29 points.29
OsloSan Diego
Score6940
Notable places within 2 km20740
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
OsloSan Diego
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 40 points.40
OsloSan Diego
Score4888
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
San Diego
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloSan Diego
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasureOsloSan Diego
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation23 m129 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloSan Diego
City population717,7101,386,932
People per km²1,438
Museums within 10 km6026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7544
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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.