VacationSelector

Bergen or Biarritz?

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

Your match

Bergen
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

BergenBiarritz
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 13 points.13
BergenBiarritz
Score5467
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1743
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Bergen leads by 9 points.9
BergenBiarritz
Score4132
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237207
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2013
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 20 points.20
BergenBiarritz
Score5131
Museums within 10 km3516
Museums within 2 km of centre255
Share of museums within 2 km %7131
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Bergen leads by 12 points.12
BergenBiarritz
Score2715
Drinking venues within 4 km217105
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9378
Nightclubs within 4 km46
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 10 points.10
BergenBiarritz
Score2030
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5564
Park area within 2 km36 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 19 points.19
BergenBiarritz
Score4021
Tourist attractions within 2 km222
Park area within 2 km36 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 29 points.29
BergenBiarritz
Score5223
Notable places within 2 km7715
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BergenBiarritz
Score5462
Price level global85.173.7
Daily budget€203€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 27 points.27
BergenBiarritz
Score3865
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C13.1 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm97 mm to 224 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
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenBiarritz
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 111 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

MeasureBergenBiarritz
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 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 m0 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenBiarritz
City population291,18926,206
People per km²3,3392,240
Museums within 10 km318
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3224
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 months

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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.