VacationSelector

Bergen or Dresden?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BergenDresden
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenDresden
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1722
Coast distance0 km267 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 20 points.20
BergenDresden
Score4161
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2042
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
BergenDresden
Score5154
Museums within 10 km3566
Museums within 2 km of centre2534
Share of museums within 2 km %7152
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 15 points.15
BergenDresden
Score2742
Drinking venues within 4 km217359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9374
Nightclubs within 4 km443
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 19 points.19
BergenDresden
Score2039
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %55100
Park area within 2 km36 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 19 points.19
BergenDresden
Score4059
Tourist attractions within 2 km2232
Park area within 2 km36 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
BergenDresden
Score5253
Notable places within 2 km7782
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
BergenDresden
Score5460
Price level global85.175.9
Daily budget€203€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 24 points.24
BergenDresden
Score3862
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenDresden
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 112 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 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

MeasureBergenDresden
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiGerman
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 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 m126 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenDresden
City population291,189564,904
People per km²3,3391,720
Museums within 10 km3170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3277
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.