VacationSelector

Oslo or West Palm Beach?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

OsloWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.28
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score6088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km16310
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 30 points.30
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score6737
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3414
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 31 points.31
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score4817
Museums within 10 km705
Museums within 2 km of centre373
Share of museums within 2 km %5360
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 33 points.33
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score5320
Drinking venues within 4 km695132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre56290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8168
Nightclubs within 4 km4110
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.8
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score6169
Protected land share 50 km %2215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9445
Park area within 2 km88 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 27 points.27
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score4821
Tourist attractions within 2 km133
Park area within 2 km88 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 57 points.57
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score6912
Notable places within 2 km2078
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 27 points.27
OsloWest Palm Beach
Score4875
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€110-169
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 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

MeasureOsloWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloWest Palm Beach
City population717,710117,415
People per km²786
Museums within 10 km604
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7518
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.