VacationSelector

Bergen or Berlin?

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

Your match

Bergen
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BergenBerlin
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenBerlin
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1717
Coast distance0 km142 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 29 points.29
BergenBerlin
Score4170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2033
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 28 points.28
BergenBerlin
Score5179
Museums within 10 km35200
Museums within 2 km of centre2581
Share of museums within 2 km %7141
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 49 points.49
BergenBerlin
Score2776
Drinking venues within 4 km2172,114
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201719
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9334
Nightclubs within 4 km4135
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 29 points.29
BergenBerlin
Score2049
Protected land share 50 km %120
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %55100
Park area within 2 km36 hectares141 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 36 points.36
BergenBerlin
Score4076
Tourist attractions within 2 km2254
Park area within 2 km36 hectares141 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 32 points.32
BergenBerlin
Score5284
Notable places within 2 km77486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BergenBerlin
Score5460
Price level global85.175.9
Daily budget€203€163
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 22 points.22
BergenBerlin
Score3860
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C3.7 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm29 mm to 76 mm
Dry months03
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
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenBerlin
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€57-77
BER · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€83-100
BER · 19 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 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

MeasureBergenBerlin
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiGerman
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m34 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenBerlin
City population291,1893,782,202
People per km²3,3394,244
Museums within 10 km31158
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre3286
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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.