VacationSelector

Bergen or Genoa?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BergenGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 19 points.19
BergenGenoa
Score5473
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1737
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 9 points.9
BergenGenoa
Score4150
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2014
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 4 points.4
BergenGenoa
Score5155
Museums within 10 km3547
Museums within 2 km of centre2533
Share of museums within 2 km %7170
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 23 points.23
BergenGenoa
Score2750
Drinking venues within 4 km217637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9366
Nightclubs within 4 km417
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 15 points.15
BergenGenoa
Score2035
Protected land share 50 km %18
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5561
Park area within 2 km36 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenGenoa
Score4038
Tourist attractions within 2 km2221
Park area within 2 km36 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 9 points.9
BergenGenoa
Score5261
Notable places within 2 km77130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
BergenGenoa
Score5468
Price level global85.164.9
Daily budget€203€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 35 points.35
BergenGenoa
Score3873
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm12 mm to 122 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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenGenoa
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIN · 119 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 137 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
MXP · 137 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

MeasureBergenGenoa
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 m20 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenGenoa
City population291,189558,745
People per km²3,3392,325
Museums within 10 km3151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3241
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.