VacationSelector

Aarhus or Bergen?

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, 2 points apart

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Bergen
42
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

AarhusBergen
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 5 points.5
AarhusBergen
Score5954
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2817
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 12 points.12
AarhusBergen
Score5341
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427237
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2620
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 13 points.13
AarhusBergen
Score3851
Museums within 10 km2635
Museums within 2 km of centre2025
Share of museums within 2 km %7771
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 13 points.13
AarhusBergen
Score4027
Drinking venues within 4 km382217
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330201
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8693
Nightclubs within 4 km154
Nature & day trips. Aarhus leads by 8 points.8
AarhusBergen
Score2820
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6855
Park area within 2 km72 hectares36 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 7 points.7
AarhusBergen
Score3340
Tourist attractions within 2 km622
Park area within 2 km72 hectares36 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 15 points.15
AarhusBergen
Score3752
Notable places within 2 km3377
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
AarhusBergen
Score5254
Price level global87.885.1
Daily budget€214€203
Year-round weather. Aarhus leads by 15 points.15
AarhusBergen
Score5338
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C4.7 °C to 19.7 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm109 mm to 290 mm
Dry months30
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
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusBergen
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 20 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 5 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAarhusBergen
Official languageDanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation6 m5 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusBergen
City population290,598291,189
People per km²3,1933,339
Museums within 10 km1731
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3732
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.