VacationSelector

Oslo or Toronto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

OsloToronto
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 17 points.17
OsloToronto
Score6043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km16358
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
OsloToronto
Score6782
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8532,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3439
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
OsloToronto
Score4843
Museums within 10 km7035
Museums within 2 km of centre3725
Share of museums within 2 km %5371
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 16 points.16
OsloToronto
Score5369
Drinking venues within 4 km6951,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8164
Nightclubs within 4 km41103
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 35 points.35
OsloToronto
Score6126
Protected land share 50 km %222
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %94100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 9 points.9
OsloToronto
Score4857
Tourist attractions within 2 km1323
Park area within 2 km88 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 8 points.8
OsloToronto
Score6961
Notable places within 2 km207128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo and Toronto are level on 54.
OsloToronto
Score5454
Price level global85.184
Daily budget€203—
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
OsloToronto
Score4855
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Toronto
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
Toronto
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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
8 h 55 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureOsloToronto
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench, English
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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 m76 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloToronto
City population717,7102,794,356
People per km²–4,434
Museums within 10 km6032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre75102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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.