VacationSelector

Bergen or Malaga?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BergenMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 12 points.12
BergenMalaga
Score5466
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1721
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
BergenMalaga
Score4169
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 2 points.2
BergenMalaga
Score5153
Museums within 10 km3540
Museums within 2 km of centre2535
Share of museums within 2 km %7188
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 27 points.27
BergenMalaga
Score2754
Drinking venues within 4 km217715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9368
Nightclubs within 4 km445
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 23 points.23
BergenMalaga
Score2043
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5563
Park area within 2 km36 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 13 points.13
BergenMalaga
Score4053
Tourist attractions within 2 km2233
Park area within 2 km36 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 15 points.15
BergenMalaga
Score5237
Notable places within 2 km7733
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
BergenMalaga
Score5471
Price level global85.160.8
Daily budget€203€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 44 points.44
BergenMalaga
Score3882
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months05
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenMalaga
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 9 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TTU · 149 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 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

MeasureBergenMalaga
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiSpanish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 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 m18 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenMalaga
City population291,189599,063
People per km²3,3391,517
Museums within 10 km3132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3265
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.