VacationSelector

Beijing or Bergen?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BeijingBergen
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BeijingBergen
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km017
Coast distance145 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 12 points.12
BeijingBergen
Score6351
Museums within 10 km9535
Museums within 2 km of centre1525
Share of museums within 2 km %1671
Unesco sites within 50 km61
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Beijing leads by 15 points.15
BeijingBergen
Score3520
Protected land share 50 km %31
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10055
Park area within 2 km143 hectares36 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 37 points.37
BeijingBergen
Score7740
Tourist attractions within 2 km4122
Park area within 2 km143 hectares36 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km120
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BeijingBergen
Score5052
Notable places within 2 km6977
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 25 points.25
BeijingBergen
Score7954
Price level global4985.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 28 points.28
BeijingBergen
Score6638
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C4.7 °C to 19.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm109 mm to 290 mm
Dry months80
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
Bergen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingBergen
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
MunichMUC
9 h 45 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
OsloOSL, TRF
8 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 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

MeasureBeijingBergen
Official languagePutonghuaNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation43 m5 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingBergen
City population21,893,095291,189
People per km²1,3343,339
Museums within 10 km8331
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre2932
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.