VacationSelector

Oslo or San Jose?

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 sights concentration and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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 Jose
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 52 points.52
OsloSan Jose
Score608
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1631
Coast distance1 km14 km
Water distance1 km14 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 26 points.26
OsloSan Jose
Score6741
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3416
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
OsloSan Jose
Score4826
Museums within 10 km7020
Museums within 2 km of centre379
Share of museums within 2 km %5345
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
OsloSan Jose
Score5331
Drinking venues within 4 km695231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre56288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8138
Nightclubs within 4 km4116
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 9 points.9
OsloSan Jose
Score6170
Protected land share 50 km %2226
Landscape blanket share 50 km %12
Land share of disc %9491
Park area within 2 km88 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
OsloSan Jose
Score4833
Tourist attractions within 2 km132
Park area within 2 km88 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 55 points.55
OsloSan Jose
Score6914
Notable places within 2 km2079
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
OsloSan Jose
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 37 points.37
OsloSan Jose
Score4885
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months08
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
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1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
San Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloSan Jose
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
DohaDOH
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
SFO · 57 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 Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloSan Jose
City population717,7101,013,240
People per km²2,167
Museums within 10 km6019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7530
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.