VacationSelector

Oslo or Strasbourg?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

OsloStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
OsloStrasbourg
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1639
Coast distance1 km398 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Oslo and Strasbourg are level on 67.
OsloStrasbourg
Score6767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3436
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 7 points.7
OsloStrasbourg
Score4841
Museums within 10 km7023
Museums within 2 km of centre3714
Share of museums within 2 km %5361
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 17 points.17
OsloStrasbourg
Score5336
Drinking venues within 4 km695305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8187
Nightclubs within 4 km4117
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 7 points.7
OsloStrasbourg
Score6154
Protected land share 50 km %2237
Landscape blanket share 50 km %135
Land share of disc %94100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 10 points.10
OsloStrasbourg
Score4838
Tourist attractions within 2 km139
Park area within 2 km88 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
OsloStrasbourg
Score6958
Notable places within 2 km207109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
OsloStrasbourg
Score5462
Price level global85.173.7
Daily budget€203€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 15 points.15
OsloStrasbourg
Score4863
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
NiceNCE
2 h 50 m
€141-164
OSL · 37 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€136-156
FKB · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 109 km
DohaDOH
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureOsloStrasbourg
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 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 m132 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloStrasbourg
City population717,710293,771
People per km²3,752
Museums within 10 km6021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7587
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.