VacationSelector

Oslo or Venice?

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, 1 point apart

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
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.

OsloVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 9 points.9
OsloVenice
Score6069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km16320
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
OsloVenice
Score6745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3410
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 24 points.24
OsloVenice
Score4872
Museums within 10 km7057
Museums within 2 km of centre3745
Share of museums within 2 km %5379
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 18 points.18
OsloVenice
Score5335
Drinking venues within 4 km695342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8189
Nightclubs within 4 km413
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 44 points.44
OsloVenice
Score6117
Protected land share 50 km %224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9470
Park area within 2 km88 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 9 points.9
OsloVenice
Score4857
Tourist attractions within 2 km1372
Park area within 2 km88 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 14 points.14
OsloVenice
Score6983
Notable places within 2 km207464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
OsloVenice
Score5468
Price level global85.164.9
Daily budget€203€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 18 points.18
OsloVenice
Score4866
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
2 h 0 m
€78-139
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
8 h 55 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureOsloVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloVenice
City population717,710250,369
People per km²602
Museums within 10 km6052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7546
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.