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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bergen or Glasgow?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bergen for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Bergen’s own page.

Choose Glasgow for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bergen 20, Glasgow 14: Bergen leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Glasgow 52: Glasgow leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Glasgow 75: Bergen leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Glasgow 58: Bergen leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Glasgow 66: Bergen leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Glasgow 46: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Glasgow 28: Bergen leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Glasgow.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Glasgow has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenGlasgow
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112 or 999
Elevation5 m21 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenGlasgow
City population291,189626,410
People per km²3,339190
Museums within 10 km3129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.