VacationSelector

Bergen or Osaka?

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.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
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.

BergenOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 1 points.1
BergenOsaka
Score5455
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1725
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 49 points.49
BergenOsaka
Score4190
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2379,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2025
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 13 points.13
BergenOsaka
Score5164
Museums within 10 km3578
Museums within 2 km of centre2522
Share of museums within 2 km %7128
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 70 points.70
BergenOsaka
Score2797
Drinking venues within 4 km2178,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2014,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9353
Nightclubs within 4 km497
Nature & day trips. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
BergenOsaka
Score2028
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5584
Park area within 2 km36 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 32 points.32
BergenOsaka
Score4072
Tourist attractions within 2 km2247
Park area within 2 km36 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 4 points.4
BergenOsaka
Score5248
Notable places within 2 km7763
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
BergenOsaka
Score5470
Price level global85.162.4
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 25 points.25
BergenOsaka
Score3863
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm47 mm to 185 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
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenOsaka
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 38 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBergenOsaka
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiJapanese
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110Police 110, fire 119
Elevation5 m20 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenOsaka
City population291,1892,751,862
People per km²3,33912,340
Museums within 10 km3143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre3297
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.