VacationSelector

Bergen or Plovdiv?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bergen
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BergenPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Bergen leads by 54 points.54
BergenPlovdiv
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance0 km130 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 5 points.5
BergenPlovdiv
Score4146
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2019
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 13 points.13
BergenPlovdiv
Score5138
Museums within 10 km3526
Museums within 2 km of centre2526
Share of museums within 2 km %71100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 15 points.15
BergenPlovdiv
Score2742
Drinking venues within 4 km217392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9373
Nightclubs within 4 km426
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 17 points.17
BergenPlovdiv
Score2037
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %55100
Park area within 2 km36 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 9 points.9
BergenPlovdiv
Score4031
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km36 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 11 points.11
BergenPlovdiv
Score5241
Notable places within 2 km7741
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 45 points.45
BergenPlovdiv
Score5499
Price level global85.121.4
Daily budget€203€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 27 points.27
BergenPlovdiv
Score3865
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm25 mm to 81 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
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€100-146
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€109-169
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
SOF · 125 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

MeasureBergenPlovdiv
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiBulgarian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m172 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenPlovdiv
City population291,189333,994
People per km²3,3393,274
Museums within 10 km3118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3236
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.