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Oslo in April

good · a good time to go · the driest month of the year

The year in Oslo

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  1. Oslo in January: avoid
  2. Oslo in February: avoid
  3. Oslo in March: avoid
  4. Oslo in April: good
  5. Oslo in May: sweet spot
  6. Oslo in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Oslo in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Oslo in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Oslo in September: ok
  10. Oslo in October: ok
  11. Oslo in November: avoid
  12. Oslo in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
April at Oslo is 11°C by day and 1°C at night, with 5 rainy days and about 10 hours of sun a day. 11C max, 5 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high11°C
Nightly low1°C
Feels like, afternoon7°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more5 · 47 mm
Humidity65%
Sunshine10.3 h/day
Daylight14.6 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Karl Johans gate, the centre, 37 km from the airport (OSL): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

April: quiet. Busiest from June to August; quietest in February, March, April, November and December.

Public holidays in April

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Oslo in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 1°C.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Cost of livingexpensive — prices run about 91% of the United States' (World Bank, 2025)
CurrencyNorwegian krone
LanguagesBokmål, Sámi, Nynorsk, Norwegian
PlugsType C and F, 230 V
DrivingOn the right
Calling code+47
Travel advice No advice against travel — UK Foreign Office, updated 2026-08-25
HealthUK Foreign Office health advice

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank, refreshed 2026-10-07. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

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