VacationSelector

Bergen or Cancun?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BergenCancun
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 43 points.43
BergenCancun
Score5497
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1723
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 13 points.13
BergenCancun
Score4154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237681
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2018
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 31 points.31
BergenCancun
Score5120
Museums within 10 km351
Museums within 2 km of centre251
Share of museums within 2 km %71100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Cancun leads by 9 points.9
BergenCancun
Score2736
Drinking venues within 4 km217270
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9365
Nightclubs within 4 km433
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 34 points.34
BergenCancun
Score2054
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5545
Park area within 2 km36 hectares66 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 8 points.8
BergenCancun
Score4032
Tourist attractions within 2 km222
Park area within 2 km36 hectares66 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 48 points.48
BergenCancun
Score524
Notable places within 2 km775
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 22 points.22
BergenCancun
Score5476
Price level global85.154.2
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 43 points.43
BergenCancun
Score3881
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C26.2 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm38 mm to 224 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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenCancun
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 5 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 15 m
€58-170
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
CUN · 14 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

MeasureBergenCancun
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m5 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenCancun
City population291,189888,797
People per km²3,339
Museums within 10 km311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3231
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.