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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bergen or Copper Mountain?

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

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Copper Mountain for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Copper Mountain’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, Copper Mountain 3: Bergen leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Copper Mountain 20: Bergen leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Copper Mountain 4: Bergen leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Copper Mountain 12: Bergen leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Copper Mountain 55: Copper Mountain leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Copper Mountain 62: Copper Mountain leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Copper Mountain 48: Bergen leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Copper Mountain 8: Bergen leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Copper Mountain 18: Copper Mountain leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Copper Mountain 8: Bergen leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Copper Mountain 28: Bergen leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Bergen
Best match
46match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on day trips and prices 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
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Copper Mountain in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Copper Mountain's temperatures are measured 35 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Copper Mountain has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenCopper Mountain
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi-
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m2,955 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenCopper Mountain
City population291,189650
People per km²3,3398
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.