VacationSelector

Bergen or Bruges?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bergen
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BergenBruges
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 46 points.46
BergenBruges
Score548
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance0 km14 km
Water distance0 km14 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 16 points.16
BergenBruges
Score4157
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237443
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2032
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 6 points.6
BergenBruges
Score5157
Museums within 10 km3530
Museums within 2 km of centre2524
Share of museums within 2 km %7180
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 7 points.7
BergenBruges
Score2734
Drinking venues within 4 km217292
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201233
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9380
Nightclubs within 4 km48
Nature & day trips. Bruges leads by 6 points.6
BergenBruges
Score2026
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5565
Park area within 2 km36 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 20 points.20
BergenBruges
Score4060
Tourist attractions within 2 km2252
Park area within 2 km36 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 12 points.12
BergenBruges
Score5240
Notable places within 2 km7740
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 6 points.6
BergenBruges
Score5460
Price level global85.176.2
Daily budget€203€180
Year-round weather. Bruges leads by 18 points.18
BergenBruges
Score3856
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months01
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
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). Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenBruges
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 94 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
OST · 24 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 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

MeasureBergenBruges
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench, German, Dutch
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 m2 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenBruges
City population291,189118,509
People per km²3,339840
Museums within 10 km3138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre3251
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). 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.