VacationSelector

Bergen or Monaco?

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 nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Monaco
✓ Best match
48
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.

BergenMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 19 points.19
BergenMonaco
Score5473
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1750
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenMonaco
Score4139
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2016
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 13 points.13
BergenMonaco
Score5138
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre258
Share of museums within 2 km %7135
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Bergen leads by 19 points.19
BergenMonaco
Score278
Drinking venues within 4 km21769
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20163
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9391
Nightclubs within 4 km47
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 33 points.33
BergenMonaco
Score2053
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %5554
Park area within 2 km36 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 5 points.5
BergenMonaco
Score4035
Tourist attractions within 2 km2214
Park area within 2 km36 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 12 points.12
BergenMonaco
Score5264
Notable places within 2 km77154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 36 points.36
BergenMonaco
Score3874
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenMonaco
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€125-148
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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

MeasureBergenMonaco
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEF230 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 m68 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenMonaco
City population291,18938,857
People per km²3,33918,503
Museums within 10 km3114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3229
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.