VacationSelector

Bergen or Dubai?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BergenDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 46 points.46
BergenDubai
Score54100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1752
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 25 points.25
BergenDubai
Score4166
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2026
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 13 points.13
BergenDubai
Score5138
Museums within 10 km3526
Museums within 2 km of centre2518
Share of museums within 2 km %7169
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 26 points.26
BergenDubai
Score2753
Drinking venues within 4 km217601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9351
Nightclubs within 4 km484
Nature & day trips. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenDubai
Score2018
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5552
Park area within 2 km36 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 9 points.9
BergenDubai
Score4049
Tourist attractions within 2 km2237
Park area within 2 km36 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 15 points.15
BergenDubai
Score5237
Notable places within 2 km7733
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 15 points.15
BergenDubai
Score5469
Price level global85.163.4
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 28 points.28
BergenDubai
Score3866
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenDubai
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 15 m
€58-170
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
5 h 35 m
€244-282
DXB · 7 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
AUH · 114 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

MeasureBergenDubai
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiArabic
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m0 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenDubai
City population291,1893,944,751
People per km²3,339
Museums within 10 km3114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3252
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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.