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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bergen or Gold Coast?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Gold Coast for

  • beaches
  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’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, Gold Coast 92: Gold Coast leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Bergen and Gold Coast are level on 47.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Gold Coast 15: Bergen leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Gold Coast 55: Gold Coast leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Gold Coast 82: Bergen leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Gold Coast 52: Gold Coast leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Gold Coast 89: Gold Coast leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Gold Coast 45: Bergen leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Gold Coast 40: Gold Coast leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Gold Coast 35: Gold Coast leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Gold Coast 30: Bergen leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Gold Coast 42: Gold Coast leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Gold Coast.

Your match

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

Bergen
46match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Gold Coast
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BergenGold Coast

Where the figures come from

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenGold Coast
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110000
Elevation5 m12 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenGold Coast
City population291,189607,665
People per km²3,339433
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.