VacationSelector

Bergen or Hamburg?

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.

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BergenHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenHamburg
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1716
Coast distance0 km22 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 32 points.32
BergenHamburg
Score4173
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2038
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 9 points.9
BergenHamburg
Score5160
Museums within 10 km3594
Museums within 2 km of centre2550
Share of museums within 2 km %7153
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 41 points.41
BergenHamburg
Score2768
Drinking venues within 4 km2171,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9362
Nightclubs within 4 km4119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 20 points.20
BergenHamburg
Score2040
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %5599
Park area within 2 km36 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 20 points.20
BergenHamburg
Score4060
Tourist attractions within 2 km2240
Park area within 2 km36 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 7 points.7
BergenHamburg
Score5259
Notable places within 2 km77118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 6 points.6
BergenHamburg
Score5460
Price level global85.175.9
Daily budget€203€163
Year-round weather. Hamburg leads by 17 points.17
BergenHamburg
Score3855
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm39 mm to 82 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenHamburg
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€58
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€114-154
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
HAJ · 123 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

MeasureBergenHamburg
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 m6 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenHamburg
City population291,1891,910,160
People per km²3,3392,530
Museums within 10 km3177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3283
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.