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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bergen or Sayulita?

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

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

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Sayulita 42: Bergen leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Sayulita 7: Bergen leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Sayulita 33: Bergen leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Sayulita 72: Bergen leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Sayulita 42: Bergen leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Sayulita 48: Bergen leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen and Sayulita are level on 33.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Sayulita 12: Bergen leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Bergen
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

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

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BergenSayulita

Where the figures come from

Sayulita has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBergenSayulita
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m2 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenSayulita
City population291,1893,390
People per km²3,339-
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.