VacationSelector

Bergen or Frankfurt?

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.

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BergenFrankfurt
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenFrankfurt
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance0 km327 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 29 points.29
BergenFrankfurt
Score4170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,160
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2031
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 18 points.18
BergenFrankfurt
Score5169
Museums within 10 km3579
Museums within 2 km of centre2543
Share of museums within 2 km %7154
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 32 points.32
BergenFrankfurt
Score2759
Drinking venues within 4 km217931
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201691
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9374
Nightclubs within 4 km456
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 44 points.44
BergenFrankfurt
Score2064
Protected land share 50 km %128
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %55100
Park area within 2 km36 hectares124 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 28 points.28
BergenFrankfurt
Score4068
Tourist attractions within 2 km2245
Park area within 2 km36 hectares124 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 9 points.9
BergenFrankfurt
Score5261
Notable places within 2 km77129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 6 points.6
BergenFrankfurt
Score5460
Price level global85.175.9
Daily budget€203€163
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 24 points.24
BergenFrankfurt
Score3862
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C5 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm38 mm to 68 mm
Dry months01
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenFrankfurt
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€173-202
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€140-202
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
HHN · 103 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 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

MeasureBergenFrankfurt
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiGerman
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 m101 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenFrankfurt
City population291,189775,790
People per km²3,3393,124
Museums within 10 km3153
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre3271
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.