VacationSelector

Bergen or Liverpool?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Liverpool
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

BergenLiverpool
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 6 points.6
BergenLiverpool
Score5460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1734
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Liverpool leads by 19 points.19
BergenLiverpool
Score4160
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237542
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2032
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 8 points.8
BergenLiverpool
Score5143
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre2512
Share of museums within 2 km %7152
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 34 points.34
BergenLiverpool
Score2761
Drinking venues within 4 km217977
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201651
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9367
Nightclubs within 4 km479
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 38 points.38
BergenLiverpool
Score2058
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5560
Park area within 2 km36 hectares81 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 18 points.18
BergenLiverpool
Score4058
Tourist attractions within 2 km2225
Park area within 2 km36 hectares81 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenLiverpool
Score5250
Notable places within 2 km7768
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen and Liverpool are level on 54.
BergenLiverpool
Score5454
Price level global85.184.9
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Liverpool leads by 16 points.16
BergenLiverpool
Score3854
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months00
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenLiverpool
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 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

MeasureBergenLiverpool
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112 or 999
Elevation5 m70 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenLiverpool
City population291,189513,441
People per km²3,3394,592
Museums within 10 km3131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3249
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.