VacationSelector

Bergen or Bordeaux?

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 and sights concentration with your weighting.

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

BergenBordeaux
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenBordeaux
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 27 points.27
BergenBordeaux
Score4168
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237975
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2032
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BergenBordeaux
Score5155
Museums within 10 km3535
Museums within 2 km of centre2517
Share of museums within 2 km %7149
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 21 points.21
BergenBordeaux
Score2748
Drinking venues within 4 km217546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9378
Nightclubs within 4 km432
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 31 points.31
BergenBordeaux
Score2051
Protected land share 50 km %135
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %5585
Park area within 2 km36 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BergenBordeaux
Score4045
Tourist attractions within 2 km2221
Park area within 2 km36 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 7 points.7
BergenBordeaux
Score5245
Notable places within 2 km7751
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BergenBordeaux
Score5462
Price level global85.173.7
Daily budget€203€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 30 points.30
BergenBordeaux
Score3868
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C10.5 °C to 27.6 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm47 mm to 114 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
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenBordeaux
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€154-179
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
BOD · 11 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

MeasureBergenBordeaux
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 m1 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenBordeaux
City population291,189267,991
People per km²3,3395,425
Museums within 10 km3118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre3281
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.