VacationSelector

Bergen or Gdansk?

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.

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BergenGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 1 points.1
BergenGdansk
Score5455
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1720
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
BergenGdansk
Score4152
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2028
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 6 points.6
BergenGdansk
Score5157
Museums within 10 km3543
Museums within 2 km of centre2528
Share of museums within 2 km %7165
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Gdansk leads by 9 points.9
BergenGdansk
Score2736
Drinking venues within 4 km217269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9375
Nightclubs within 4 km430
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
BergenGdansk
Score2045
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %5570
Park area within 2 km36 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 35 points.35
BergenGdansk
Score4075
Tourist attractions within 2 km22108
Park area within 2 km36 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Bergen and Gdansk are level on 52.
BergenGdansk
Score5252
Notable places within 2 km7776
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
BergenGdansk
Score5479
Price level global85.149
Daily budget€203€133
Year-round weather. Gdansk leads by 14 points.14
BergenGdansk
Score3852
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
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). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenGdansk
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 5 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 15 m
€58-170
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 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

MeasureBergenGdansk
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiPolish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m11 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenGdansk
City population291,189487,834
People per km²3,339714
Museums within 10 km3137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3248
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.