VacationSelector

Bergen or Interlaken?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bergen
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BergenInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenInterlaken
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1712
Coast distance0 km713 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bergen leads by 12 points.12
BergenInterlaken
Score4129
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2017
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 28 points.28
BergenInterlaken
Score5123
Museums within 10 km355
Museums within 2 km of centre252
Share of museums within 2 km %7140
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Bergen leads by 23 points.23
BergenInterlaken
Score274
Drinking venues within 4 km21742
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20138
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9390
Nightclubs within 4 km43
Nature & day trips. Interlaken leads by 7 points.7
BergenInterlaken
Score2027
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %55100
Park area within 2 km36 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 26 points.26
BergenInterlaken
Score4014
Tourist attractions within 2 km2211
Park area within 2 km36 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 30 points.30
BergenInterlaken
Score5222
Notable places within 2 km7714
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen leads by 19 points.19
BergenInterlaken
Score5435
Price level global85.1110.5
Daily budget€203€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 19 points.19
BergenInterlaken
Score3857
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenInterlaken
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureBergenInterlaken
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 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 m571 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenInterlaken
City population291,1896,123
People per km²3,3391,424
Museums within 10 km313
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3222
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.