VacationSelector

Bergen or Lucerne?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bergen
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on year-round weather and places to eat 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.

BergenLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenLucerne
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1716
Coast distance0 km669 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 6 points.6
BergenLucerne
Score4147
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2025
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 11 points.11
BergenLucerne
Score5140
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre2513
Share of museums within 2 km %7157
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Lucerne leads by 1 points.1
BergenLucerne
Score2728
Drinking venues within 4 km217202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9375
Nightclubs within 4 km411
Nature & day trips. Lucerne leads by 5 points.5
BergenLucerne
Score2025
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %55100
Park area within 2 km36 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenLucerne
Score4038
Tourist attractions within 2 km2215
Park area within 2 km36 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 17 points.17
BergenLucerne
Score5235
Notable places within 2 km7729
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen leads by 19 points.19
BergenLucerne
Score5435
Price level global85.1110.5
Daily budget€203€248
Year-round weather. Lucerne leads by 15 points.15
BergenLucerne
Score3853
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenLucerne
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 49 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
SalSID
6 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureBergenLucerne
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m436 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenLucerne
City population291,18986,234
People per km²3,3392,963
Museums within 10 km3114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3246
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.