VacationSelector

Bath 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, 2 points apart

Bath
40
match

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

BathBergen
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 46 points.46
BathBergen
Score854
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km117
Coast distance29 km0 km
Water distance29 km0 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 5 points.5
BathBergen
Score4641
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245237
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2620
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 4 points.4
BathBergen
Score4751
Museums within 10 km2035
Museums within 2 km of centre1425
Share of museums within 2 km %7071
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Bath leads by 9 points.9
BathBergen
Score3627
Drinking venues within 4 km320217
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240201
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7593
Nightclubs within 4 km114
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 24 points.24
BathBergen
Score4420
Protected land share 50 km %281
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9255
Park area within 2 km45 hectares36 hectares
Good for families. Bath and Bergen are level on 40.
BathBergen
Score4040
Tourist attractions within 2 km1422
Park area within 2 km45 hectares36 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 20 points.20
BathBergen
Score3252
Notable places within 2 km2577
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath and Bergen are level on 54.
BathBergen
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Bath leads by 17 points.17
BathBergen
Score5538
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C4.7 °C to 19.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm109 mm to 290 mm
Dry months00
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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Bergen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathBergen
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
SalSID
5 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBathBergen
Official languageEnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation132 m5 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBergen
City population94,092291,189
People per km²3,2453,339
Museums within 10 km1731
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3832
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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. 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.