VacationSelector

Oslo or Tampa?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

OsloTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 15 points.15
OsloTampa
Score6075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km16310
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 13 points.13
OsloTampa
Score6754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3431
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
OsloTampa
Score4827
Museums within 10 km7013
Museums within 2 km of centre3710
Share of museums within 2 km %5377
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 14 points.14
OsloTampa
Score5339
Drinking venues within 4 km695324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8170
Nightclubs within 4 km4126
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 31 points.31
OsloTampa
Score6130
Protected land share 50 km %226
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9472
Park area within 2 km88 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 18 points.18
OsloTampa
Score4830
Tourist attractions within 2 km133
Park area within 2 km88 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 48 points.48
OsloTampa
Score6921
Notable places within 2 km20713
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
OsloTampa
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 27 points.27
OsloTampa
Score4875
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromOsloTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
2 h 45 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureOsloTampa
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation23 m30 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloTampa
City population717,710384,959
People per km²848
Museums within 10 km606
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7547
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Oslo or Tampa somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.