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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License.

Antwerp 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 Antwerp for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Bergen for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Antwerp 15, Bergen 20: Bergen leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Bergen 47: Antwerp leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Bergen 55: Antwerp leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Bergen 40: Antwerp leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Bergen 88: Bergen leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Bergen 38: Antwerp leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Bergen 60: Antwerp leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Bergen 74: Antwerp leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Bergen 33: Antwerp leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Bergen 12: Antwerp leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp and Bergen are level on 58.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Bergen 32: Bergen leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Bergen.

Your match

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

Antwerp
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and shopping with your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpBergen
Official languageFrench, German, DutchNorwegian, 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
Elevation7 m5 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBergen
City population529,247291,189
People per km²2,5423,339
Museums within 10 km3831
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.