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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License.

Amman or Bergen?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amman for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Bergen for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bergen’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amman 22, Bergen 20: Amman leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Bergen 47: Amman leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Bergen 55: Bergen leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Bergen 40: Bergen leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Bergen 88: Bergen leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Bergen 38: Amman leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Bergen 60: Bergen leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Bergen 74: Bergen leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Bergen 33: Amman leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Bergen 12: Amman leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Bergen 58: Bergen leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Bergen 32: Amman leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Bergen.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Amman
45match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanBergen
Official languageArabicNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation776 m5 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanBergen
City population4,007,526291,189
People per km²2,3853,339
Museums within 10 km831
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.