VacationSelector
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Bergen or Phuket?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bergen for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Bergen’s own page.

Choose Phuket for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bergen 20, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Phuket 66: Phuket leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Phuket 35: Bergen leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Phuket 80: Bergen leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Phuket 45: Phuket leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Phuket 22: Bergen leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Phuket 42: Phuket leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Phuket 68: Phuket leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Phuket 20: Bergen leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 50 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Phuket.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300400JFMAMJJASOND
BergenPhuket

Where the figures come from

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenPhuket
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiThai
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation5 m19 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBergenPhuket
City population291,18977,610
People per km²3,3396,468
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bergen or Phuket somewhere new.

Browse every destination

Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.