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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
The entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bergen or El Nido?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose El Nido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on El Nido’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, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, El Nido 27: Bergen leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, El Nido 4: Bergen leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, El Nido 30: Bergen leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, El Nido 87: Bergen leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, El Nido 8: Bergen leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, El Nido 40: Bergen leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, El Nido 22: Bergen leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, El Nido 7: Bergen leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, El Nido 7: Bergen leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and El Nido.

Your match

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

Bergen
Best match
46match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

El Nido
36match

Wins on beaches 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
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

El Nido in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
368 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

El Nido has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBergenEl Nido
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m35 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenEl Nido
City population291,18951,367
People per km²3,33956
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.