VacationSelector

Oslo or Siena?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

OsloSiena
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
OsloSiena
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1630
Coast distance1 km64 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 35 points.35
OsloSiena
Score6732
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3411
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 23 points.23
OsloSiena
Score4871
Museums within 10 km7055
Museums within 2 km of centre3751
Share of museums within 2 km %5393
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 36 points.36
OsloSiena
Score5317
Drinking venues within 4 km695142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8184
Nightclubs within 4 km411
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 42 points.42
OsloSiena
Score6119
Protected land share 50 km %223
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %94100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 17 points.17
OsloSiena
Score4831
Tourist attractions within 2 km1313
Park area within 2 km88 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 19 points.19
OsloSiena
Score6950
Notable places within 2 km20769
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 14 points.14
OsloSiena
Score5468
Price level global85.164.9
Daily budget€203€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 16 points.16
OsloSiena
Score4864
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Siena
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
Siena
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). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 55 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
TRF · 85 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 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

MeasureOsloSiena
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiItalian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 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 m322 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloSiena
City population717,71052,812
People per km²446
Museums within 10 km6029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7525
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.