VacationSelector

Avignon 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, 1 point apart

Avignon
41
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Bergen
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

AvignonBergen
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
AvignonBergen
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km117
Coast distance55 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Avignon leads by 3 points.3
AvignonBergen
Score4441
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336237
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1820
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 4 points.4
AvignonBergen
Score5551
Museums within 10 km1735
Museums within 2 km of centre1625
Share of museums within 2 km %9471
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Bergen leads by 11 points.11
AvignonBergen
Score1627
Drinking venues within 4 km115217
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97201
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8493
Nightclubs within 4 km44
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 24 points.24
AvignonBergen
Score4420
Protected land share 50 km %361
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10055
Park area within 2 km23 hectares36 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 2 points.2
AvignonBergen
Score4240
Tourist attractions within 2 km1522
Park area within 2 km23 hectares36 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 12 points.12
AvignonBergen
Score4052
Notable places within 2 km4077
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Avignon leads by 8 points.8
AvignonBergen
Score6254
Price level global73.785.1
Daily budget€160€203
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 32 points.32
AvignonBergen
Score7038
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C4.7 °C to 19.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm109 mm to 290 mm
Dry months20
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
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Bergen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonBergen
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
MRS · 65 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
3 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
SalSID
5 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
6 h 55 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAvignonBergen
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
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBergen
City population92,188291,189
People per km²1,4203,339
Museums within 10 km1131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre3632
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. 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.