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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Bergen or Los Cabos?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Cabos’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, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Los Cabos 20: Bergen leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Los Cabos 78: Bergen leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Los Cabos 42: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Los Cabos 55: Bergen leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Los Cabos 28: Bergen leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Los Cabos 36: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Los Cabos 28: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Los Cabos 12: Bergen leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bergen
46match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BergenLos Cabos

Where the figures come from

Los Cabos has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBergenLos Cabos
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m11 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenLos Cabos
City population291,189202,694
People per km²3,339-
Museums within 10 km311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.