VacationSelector

Bergen or Montreal?

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 beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Montreal
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

BergenMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenMontreal
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km177
Coast distance0 km276 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 33 points.33
BergenMontreal
Score4174
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2049
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 14 points.14
BergenMontreal
Score5137
Museums within 10 km3539
Museums within 2 km of centre2519
Share of museums within 2 km %7149
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 35 points.35
BergenMontreal
Score2762
Drinking venues within 4 km2171,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9349
Nightclubs within 4 km474
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 16 points.16
BergenMontreal
Score2036
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %55100
Park area within 2 km36 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 10 points.10
BergenMontreal
Score4050
Tourist attractions within 2 km2211
Park area within 2 km36 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 4 points.4
BergenMontreal
Score5256
Notable places within 2 km7798
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen and Montreal are level on 54.
BergenMontreal
Score5454
Price level global85.184
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Montreal leads by 12 points.12
BergenMontreal
Score3850
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenMontreal
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
2 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureBergenMontreal
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench, English
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m31 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenMontreal
City population291,1891,895,211
People per km²3,3393,806
Museums within 10 km3137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3297
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.