VacationSelector

Bergen or Pisa?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
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.

BergenPisa
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 33 points.33
BergenPisa
Score5421
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance0 km10 km
Water distance0 km10 km
Places to eat. Bergen leads by 7 points.7
BergenPisa
Score4134
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km209
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 4 points.4
BergenPisa
Score5155
Museums within 10 km3527
Museums within 2 km of centre2522
Share of museums within 2 km %7181
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
BergenPisa
Score2728
Drinking venues within 4 km217232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9388
Nightclubs within 4 km43
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 19 points.19
BergenPisa
Score2039
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5565
Park area within 2 km36 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 7 points.7
BergenPisa
Score4047
Tourist attractions within 2 km2220
Park area within 2 km36 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 5 points.5
BergenPisa
Score5247
Notable places within 2 km7758
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
BergenPisa
Score5468
Price level global85.164.9
Daily budget€203€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 32 points.32
BergenPisa
Score3870
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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

MeasureBergenPisa
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiItalian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 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 m4 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenPisa
City population291,18988,737
People per km²3,339479
Museums within 10 km3127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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. 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.