VacationSelector

Bergen or Edinburgh?

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

Your match

Bergen
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

BergenEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 1 points.1
BergenEdinburgh
Score5455
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1720
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 29 points.29
BergenEdinburgh
Score4170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 6 points.6
BergenEdinburgh
Score5157
Museums within 10 km3530
Museums within 2 km of centre2522
Share of museums within 2 km %7173
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 37 points.37
BergenEdinburgh
Score2764
Drinking venues within 4 km2171,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9374
Nightclubs within 4 km465
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 15 points.15
BergenEdinburgh
Score2035
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5585
Park area within 2 km36 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 32 points.32
BergenEdinburgh
Score4072
Tourist attractions within 2 km2287
Park area within 2 km36 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 8 points.8
BergenEdinburgh
Score5260
Notable places within 2 km77126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen and Edinburgh are level on 54.
BergenEdinburgh
Score5454
Price level global85.184.9
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Edinburgh leads by 13 points.13
BergenEdinburgh
Score3851
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBergenEdinburgh
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€106
EDI · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
GLA · 78 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

MeasureBergenEdinburgh
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Pound Sterling (GBP)
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 or 999
Elevation5 m47 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenEdinburgh
City population291,189488,050
People per km²3,3391,884
Museums within 10 km3132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre3278
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.