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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Bergen for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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. Antibes 80, Bergen 20: Antibes leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Bergen 47: Antibes leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Bergen 55: Bergen leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antibes and Bergen are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Bergen 88: Bergen leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Bergen 38: Antibes leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Bergen 60: Bergen leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Bergen 74: Bergen leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Bergen 33: Antibes leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Bergen 12: Antibes leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Bergen 58: Bergen leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Bergen 32: Antibes leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Bergen.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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AntibesBergen

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesBergen
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation0 m5 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesBergen
City population77,637291,189
People per km²2,9303,339
Museums within 10 km1431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. 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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.