VacationSelector

Bergen or Los Angeles?

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 and value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
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.

BergenLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 25 points.25
BergenLos Angeles
Score5429
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 25 points.25
BergenLos Angeles
Score4166
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenLos Angeles
Score5149
Museums within 10 km3569
Museums within 2 km of centre2523
Share of museums within 2 km %7133
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 27 points.27
BergenLos Angeles
Score2754
Drinking venues within 4 km217660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9365
Nightclubs within 4 km464
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 42 points.42
BergenLos Angeles
Score2062
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5580
Park area within 2 km36 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 7 points.7
BergenLos Angeles
Score4033
Tourist attractions within 2 km2211
Park area within 2 km36 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 2 points.2
BergenLos Angeles
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7788
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen leads by 11 points.11
BergenLos Angeles
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 49 points.49
BergenLos Angeles
Score3887
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months08
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenLos Angeles
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 15 m
€58-170
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBergenLos Angeles
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m106 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenLos Angeles
City population291,1893,898,747
People per km²3,3392,994
Museums within 10 km3138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3246
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.