VacationSelector

Bergen or London?

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.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BergenLondon
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenLondon
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1747
Coast distance0 km43 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. London leads by 47 points.47
BergenLondon
Score4188
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2373,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2040
Museums & heritage. London leads by 21 points.21
BergenLondon
Score5172
Museums within 10 km35148
Museums within 2 km of centre2549
Share of museums within 2 km %7133
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. London leads by 68 points.68
BergenLondon
Score2795
Drinking venues within 4 km2175,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2012,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9346
Nightclubs within 4 km4312
Nature & day trips. London leads by 20 points.20
BergenLondon
Score2040
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %014
Land share of disc %5597
Park area within 2 km36 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 35 points.35
BergenLondon
Score4075
Tourist attractions within 2 km2285
Park area within 2 km36 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. London leads by 37 points.37
BergenLondon
Score5289
Notable places within 2 km77649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen and London are level on 54.
BergenLondon
Score5454
Price level global85.184.9
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. London leads by 25 points.25
BergenLondon
Score3863
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
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). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenLondon
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€66-100
LGW · 40 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureBergenLondon
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 m4 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenLondon
City population291,1898,799,728
People per km²3,3395,598
Museums within 10 km31215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre32116
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.