Living in Oslo

Oslo, Norway, about 1,082,575 people. What you would earn and keep, the climate month by month, and every open figure we hold, each with its source, period and licence.

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Key facts

• Oslo has about 1,082,575 residents (GeoNames).
• On a gross salary of NOK 630,000 a year, an employee in Oslo takes home about NOK 475,737 a year (NOK 39,645 a month) after income tax and employee contributions, an effective rate of 24.5% (Norway 2026 rules).
• A one-bedroom home in Oslo rents for about NOK 15,260 a month (metro area figure; Rental market survey (Statistics Norway table 09895), Statistics Norway (SSB), 2025).
• In Oslo the average daily high (air temperature in the shade) peaks at 21.4 °C in July and the average daily low falls to −6.6 °C in January (Historical weather (ERA5 reanalysis), Open-Meteo, 2021-2025).
• Oslo has about 21 nice days a year, days that are dry, mostly clear and feel 18 to 30 °C on average from 8 am to 8 pm, most of them in June (7) (Historical weather (ERA5 reanalysis), Open-Meteo, 2021-2025).
• Between 2021 and 2025 the air in Oslo reached 30.5 °C at its hottest and −27.9 °C at its coldest (Historical weather (ERA5 reanalysis), Open-Meteo).
• It rains or snows (at least 1 mm) on about 128 days a year in Oslo (Historical weather (ERA5 reanalysis), Open-Meteo, 2021-2025).
• The shortest day in Oslo lasts 5 h 54 min and the longest 18 h 50 min (computed from latitude).
• Fine dust (PM2.5) in Oslo averages 8.5 µg/m³ a year, 1.7 times the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ (WHO Ambient Air Quality Database v8.0 (2026), World Health Organization, 2024).
• Everyday prices in Norway sit at 96.2 on an index where the United States is 100 (World Development Indicators, World Bank, 2025).
• Life expectancy at birth in Norway is 83.2 years (World Development Indicators, World Bank, 2024).
• Norway records 0.72 intentional homicides per 100,000 people a year (World Development Indicators, World Bank, 2023).
• Besides citizens of Norway, citizens of 29 other countries under EU and EEA free movement and of Switzerland (Swiss-EU free movement) can live and work in Oslo without a visa.

What you would take home

Employee aged 17-69 outside Troms and Finnmark: 22% tax on ordinary income, bracket tax and national insurance contribution. Rules for 2026. Sources: Skatteetaten: tax on ordinary income 2026, Skatteetaten: bracket tax (trinnskatt) 2026, Skatteetaten: national insurance contribution (trygdeavgift) 2026, Skatteetaten: standard deduction (minstefradrag) 2026, Skatteetaten: personal allowance (personfradrag) 2026.

• Standard deduction only; actual expenses and interest on loans are not deducted. IPS pension savings set as your pension share get their 22% relief.
• Troms and Finnmark residents pay 18.5% on ordinary income and lower bracket tax; not modelled.
• Newcomers: the PAYE scheme for foreign workers (a flat withholding rate on gross pay for the first years, within an income cap) is not applied; set a flat rate to model it; the PAYE rate already includes national insurance, which this model still lists, so use the PAYE rate less 7.6 points (rate not checked here).

A month in Oslo

Assumed: one person, €60,000 gross a year, renting a one-bedroom home, and everyday spending of €1,200 a month in Lisbon scaled by each country's price level. These are the app's defaults; change any of them there.

Who can live and work here freely

• Citizens of Norway.
• Citizens of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, under EU and EEA free movement (Directive 2004/38/EC and the EEA Agreement). Directive 2004/38/EC, extended to Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway by the EEA Agreement. Beyond three months a registration is usually required, but no visa or permit to work.
• Citizens of Switzerland, under Swiss-EU free movement (Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (EU-Switzerland)).

Climate

Daylight is computed from latitude: the shortest day lasts 5 h 54 min, the longest 18 h 50 min.

Every figure

No open figure yet for: your childcare cost, health insurance premium, public swimming pools (official), green urban areas (official), commuting by public transport, commute time, monthly transit pass, english speakers, walking or cycling to work. A country-wide figure is marked as such where it stands in for the city.

Compare Oslo with

• Oslo vs Berlin
• Oslo vs Brussels
• Oslo vs Copenhagen
• Oslo vs Dublin
• Oslo vs Hamburg
• Oslo vs Helsinki
• Oslo vs London
• Oslo vs Paris
• Oslo vs Prague
• Oslo vs Stockholm
• Oslo vs Tallinn

Elsewhere

Sources we link to but do not copy, because their licences forbid it.

• Numbeo: cost of living in Oslo
• WeatherSpark: year-round weather in Oslo
• Wikipedia: Oslo

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Borgo, “Living in Oslo”, https://borgo.abcastor.com/city/oslo-no/, figures as of 2026-11-05. Please also name the original source of any figure you use; each is listed above with its licence. Data: oslo-no.json.