VacationSelector

Bergen or Dubrovnik?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bergen
42
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

BergenDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 23 points.23
BergenDubrovnik
Score5477
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1743
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bergen leads by 3 points.3
BergenDubrovnik
Score4138
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2018
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenDubrovnik
Score5149
Museums within 10 km3518
Museums within 2 km of centre2517
Share of museums within 2 km %7194
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Bergen leads by 7 points.7
BergenDubrovnik
Score2720
Drinking venues within 4 km217128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9386
Nightclubs within 4 km413
Nature & day trips. Bergen leads by 15 points.15
BergenDubrovnik
Score205
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %5551
Park area within 2 km36 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 19 points.19
BergenDubrovnik
Score4021
Tourist attractions within 2 km2212
Park area within 2 km36 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 8 points.8
BergenDubrovnik
Score5244
Notable places within 2 km7748
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.26
BergenDubrovnik
Score5480
Price level global85.148.5
Daily budget€203€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 27 points.27
BergenDubrovnik
Score3865
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months00
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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€116-147
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€104-134
TGD · 99 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€102-184
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 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

MeasureBergenDubrovnik
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiCroatian
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 m10 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenDubrovnik
City population291,18941,562
People per km²3,339
Museums within 10 km317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre3232
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.