VacationSelector

Bergen or Faro?

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.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

BergenFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 7 points.7
BergenFaro
Score5461
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1713
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 3 points.3
BergenFaro
Score4144
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 29 points.29
BergenFaro
Score5122
Museums within 10 km359
Museums within 2 km of centre258
Share of museums within 2 km %7189
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bergen leads by 6 points.6
BergenFaro
Score2721
Drinking venues within 4 km217143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9386
Nightclubs within 4 km48
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 37 points.37
BergenFaro
Score2057
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5542
Park area within 2 km36 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 4 points.4
BergenFaro
Score4036
Tourist attractions within 2 km2210
Park area within 2 km36 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 30 points.30
BergenFaro
Score5222
Notable places within 2 km7714
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
BergenFaro
Score5474
Price level global85.155.9
Daily budget€203€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 45 points.45
BergenFaro
Score3883
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 40 m
€134-165
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureBergenFaro
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiPortuguese
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m10 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenFaro
City population291,18964,560
People per km²3,339319
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3234
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.