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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License.

Belfast 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 Belfast for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Bergen for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

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. Belfast and Bergen are level on 20.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Bergen 47: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast and Bergen are level on 55.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Bergen 40: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Bergen 88: Bergen leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Bergen 38: Belfast leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Bergen 60: Bergen leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Bergen 74: Bergen leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Bergen 33: Belfast leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Bergen 12: Belfast leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Bergen 58: Bergen leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Bergen 32: Bergen leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Bergen.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastBergen

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre25 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.