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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bergen or Cannes?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bergen for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Bergen’s own page.

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Cannes’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bergen 20, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Cannes 55: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Cannes 38: Bergen leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Cannes 72: Bergen leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Cannes 56: Bergen leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Cannes 68: Bergen leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Cannes 22: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Cannes 38: Bergen leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Cannes.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Cannes in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenCannes
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 centre64 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenCannes
City population291,18974,350
People per km²3,3393,793
Museums within 10 km3116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.