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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License.

Aspen 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 Aspen for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Bergen for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • day trips

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. Aspen 6, Bergen 20: Bergen leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Bergen 47: Bergen leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Bergen 55: Bergen leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Aspen and Bergen are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Bergen 88: Aspen leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Bergen 38: Bergen leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Bergen 60: Bergen leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Bergen 74: Bergen leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Bergen 33: Aspen leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Bergen 12: Bergen leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Bergen 58: Bergen leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Bergen 32: Aspen leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Bergen.

Your match

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

Aspen
43match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Bergen
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Aspen in July

27 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
33 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
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

Aspen 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aspen: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Aspen / Woody Creek (5.2 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenBergen
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation2,405 m5 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenBergen
City population7,004291,189
People per km²7003,339
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.