VacationSelector

Bergen or Melbourne?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BergenMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 1 points.1
BergenMelbourne
Score5455
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1719
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 34 points.34
BergenMelbourne
Score4175
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenMelbourne
Score5149
Museums within 10 km3542
Museums within 2 km of centre2524
Share of museums within 2 km %7157
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 47 points.47
BergenMelbourne
Score2774
Drinking venues within 4 km2171,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2011,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9362
Nightclubs within 4 km4124
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 23 points.23
BergenMelbourne
Score2043
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5581
Park area within 2 km36 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 20 points.20
BergenMelbourne
Score4060
Tourist attractions within 2 km2226
Park area within 2 km36 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
BergenMelbourne
Score5257
Notable places within 2 km77103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen leads by 4 points.4
BergenMelbourne
Score5450
Price level global85.190.2
Daily budget€203—
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 38 points.38
BergenMelbourne
Score3876
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureBergenMelbourne
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110000
Elevation5 m31 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenMelbourne
City population291,1895,350,705
People per km²3,339535
Museums within 10 km3142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3286
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.