VacationSelector

Bergen or Copenhagen?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BergenCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Bergen and Copenhagen are level on 54.
BergenCopenhagen
Score5454
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1717
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 32 points.32
BergenCopenhagen
Score4173
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2037
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 24 points.24
BergenCopenhagen
Score5175
Museums within 10 km3583
Museums within 2 km of centre2551
Share of museums within 2 km %7161
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 40 points.40
BergenCopenhagen
Score2767
Drinking venues within 4 km2171,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9358
Nightclubs within 4 km464
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 30 points.30
BergenCopenhagen
Score2050
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5539
Park area within 2 km36 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 31 points.31
BergenCopenhagen
Score4071
Tourist attractions within 2 km2254
Park area within 2 km36 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
BergenCopenhagen
Score5274
Notable places within 2 km77273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenCopenhagen
Score5452
Price level global85.187.8
Daily budget€203€214
Year-round weather. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
BergenCopenhagen
Score3855
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm28 mm to 74 mm
Dry months03
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenCopenhagen
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 5 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€214-241
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 35 m
€144-151
1 stop
CPH · 8 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

MeasureBergenCopenhagen
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiDanish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEFK230 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 m14 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenCopenhagen
City population291,189667,099
People per km²3,3397,339
Museums within 10 km3172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre3282
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.