VacationSelector

Oslo or York?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on 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.

OsloYork
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
OsloYork
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1632
Coast distance1 km50 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 13 points.13
OsloYork
Score6754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3431
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
OsloYork
Score4846
Museums within 10 km7018
Museums within 2 km of centre3716
Share of museums within 2 km %5389
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 10 points.10
OsloYork
Score5343
Drinking venues within 4 km695450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8178
Nightclubs within 4 km4114
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 28 points.28
OsloYork
Score6133
Protected land share 50 km %2217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %116
Land share of disc %9495
Park area within 2 km88 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
OsloYork
Score4843
Tourist attractions within 2 km1313
Park area within 2 km88 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 30 points.30
OsloYork
Score6939
Notable places within 2 km20737
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo and York are level on 54.
OsloYork
Score5454
Price level global85.184.9
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. York leads by 8 points.8
OsloYork
Score4856
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 mm39 mm to 66 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloYork
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DohaDOH
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
8 h 55 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureOsloYork
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112 or 999
Elevation23 m25 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloYork
City population717,710208,400
People per km²766
Museums within 10 km6024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7554
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.