VacationSelector

Bergen or Florence?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BergenFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenFlorence
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance0 km78 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 18 points.18
BergenFlorence
Score4159
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2015
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 31 points.31
BergenFlorence
Score5182
Museums within 10 km35132
Museums within 2 km of centre2593
Share of museums within 2 km %7170
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Florence leads by 29 points.29
BergenFlorence
Score2756
Drinking venues within 4 km217818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9373
Nightclubs within 4 km434
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 18 points.18
BergenFlorence
Score2038
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %55100
Park area within 2 km36 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 12 points.12
BergenFlorence
Score4052
Tourist attractions within 2 km2230
Park area within 2 km36 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 23 points.23
BergenFlorence
Score5275
Notable places within 2 km77292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
BergenFlorence
Score5468
Price level global85.164.9
Daily budget€203€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 30 points.30
BergenFlorence
Score3868
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Florence
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenFlorence
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
PSA · 70 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

MeasureBergenFlorence
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiItalian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 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 m50 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenFlorence
City population291,189360,930
People per km²3,3393,528
Museums within 10 km31140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre3262
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.