VacationSelector

Oslo or Seattle?

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 nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and places to eat 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.

OsloSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Oslo and Seattle are level on 60.
OsloSeattle
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km163100
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
OsloSeattle
Score6775
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8531,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3435
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 12 points.12
OsloSeattle
Score4836
Museums within 10 km7028
Museums within 2 km of centre3717
Share of museums within 2 km %5361
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 4 points.4
OsloSeattle
Score5357
Drinking venues within 4 km695873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8180
Nightclubs within 4 km4134
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
OsloSeattle
Score6140
Protected land share 50 km %229
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9480
Park area within 2 km88 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
OsloSeattle
Score4846
Tourist attractions within 2 km1317
Park area within 2 km88 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 17 points.17
OsloSeattle
Score6952
Notable places within 2 km20776
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
OsloSeattle
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 13 points.13
OsloSeattle
Score4861
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
2 h 45 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DohaDOH
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureOsloSeattle
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 m40 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloSeattle
City population717,710737,015
People per km²1,996
Museums within 10 km6027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7578
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.