VacationSelector

Oslo or Santiago de Compostela?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
42
match

Wins on value for money 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.

OsloSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1630
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 19 points.19
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score6748
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3423
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score4844
Museums within 10 km7016
Museums within 2 km of centre3714
Share of museums within 2 km %5388
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 17 points.17
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score5336
Drinking venues within 4 km695306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8188
Nightclubs within 4 km4113
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score6146
Protected land share 50 km %2211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9492
Park area within 2 km88 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score4827
Tourist attractions within 2 km132
Park area within 2 km88 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 27 points.27
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score6942
Notable places within 2 km20744
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score5471
Price level global85.160.8
Daily budget€203€122
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.14
OsloSantiago de Compostela
Score4862
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm41 mm to 223 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
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Santiago de Compostela
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
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
3
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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloSantiago de Compostela
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€110-169
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
5 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 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

MeasureOsloSantiago de Compostela
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiSpanish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 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 m260 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloSantiago de Compostela
City population717,710100,965
People per km²459
Museums within 10 km606
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7538
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.