VacationSelector

Belfast or Bergen?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Bergen
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BelfastBergen
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 6 points.6
BelfastBergen
Score4854
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1017
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 15 points.15
BelfastBergen
Score5641
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432237
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3120
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 22 points.22
BelfastBergen
Score2951
Museums within 10 km1835
Museums within 2 km of centre625
Share of museums within 2 km %3371
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 21 points.21
BelfastBergen
Score4827
Drinking venues within 4 km550217
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348201
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6393
Nightclubs within 4 km294
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 33 points.33
BelfastBergen
Score5320
Protected land share 50 km %191
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6555
Park area within 2 km68 hectares36 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 8 points.8
BelfastBergen
Score4840
Tourist attractions within 2 km1622
Park area within 2 km68 hectares36 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 10 points.10
BelfastBergen
Score4252
Notable places within 2 km4377
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belfast and Bergen are level on 54.
BelfastBergen
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Belfast leads by 13 points.13
BelfastBergen
Score5138
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C4.7 °C to 19.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Bergen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastBergen
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 10 m
€86-108
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 30 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 15 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 10 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

MeasureBelfastBergen
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
Elevation3 m5 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBergen
City population345,006291,189
People per km²3,0003,339
Museums within 10 km831
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4432
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.