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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Bergen or Limassol?

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

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Limassol’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, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Limassol 38: Bergen leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Limassol 65: Bergen leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Limassol 38: Bergen leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Limassol 32: Bergen leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Limassol.

Your match

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

Bergen
46match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Limassol in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Limassol 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.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenLimassol
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m10 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenLimassol
City population291,189107,970
People per km²3,3392,405
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

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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.