VacationSelector

Bergen or Izmir?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

BergenIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
BergenIzmir
Score5455
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 8 points.8
BergenIzmir
Score4149
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2012
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 8 points.8
BergenIzmir
Score5143
Museums within 10 km3547
Museums within 2 km of centre2527
Share of museums within 2 km %7157
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
BergenIzmir
Score2762
Drinking venues within 4 km2171,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9368
Nightclubs within 4 km470
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
BergenIzmir
Score2029
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5584
Park area within 2 km36 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 5 points.5
BergenIzmir
Score4035
Tourist attractions within 2 km226
Park area within 2 km36 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 12 points.12
BergenIzmir
Score5240
Notable places within 2 km7739
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
BergenIzmir
Score5489
Price level global85.135.2
Daily budget€203€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 34 points.34
BergenIzmir
Score3872
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
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). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenIzmir
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MJT · 86 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 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

MeasureBergenIzmir
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiTurkish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m2 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenIzmir
City population291,1894,493,242
People per km²3,3394,760
Museums within 10 km3129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3220
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.