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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Bergen or Cork?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Cork for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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, Cork 25: Cork leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Cork 58: Cork leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Cork 40: Bergen leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Bergen and Cork are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Cork 62: Bergen leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Cork 68: Cork leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Cork 50: Bergen leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Cork 58: Bergen leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Cork 40: Cork leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Cork 33: Cork leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Cork 45: Bergen leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Cork 22: Bergen leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Cork.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bergen
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Cork
45match

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
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenCork
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish, Irish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m0 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenCork
City population291,189222,333
People per km²3,3395,961
Museums within 10 km315
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.