VacationSelector

Bergen or Seattle?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BergenSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
BergenSeattle
Score5460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km17100
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 34 points.34
BergenSeattle
Score4175
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2371,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 15 points.15
BergenSeattle
Score5136
Museums within 10 km3528
Museums within 2 km of centre2517
Share of museums within 2 km %7161
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 30 points.30
BergenSeattle
Score2757
Drinking venues within 4 km217873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9380
Nightclubs within 4 km434
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 20 points.20
BergenSeattle
Score2040
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5580
Park area within 2 km36 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
BergenSeattle
Score4046
Tourist attractions within 2 km2217
Park area within 2 km36 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bergen and Seattle are level on 52.
BergenSeattle
Score5252
Notable places within 2 km7776
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen leads by 11 points.11
BergenSeattle
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 23 points.23
BergenSeattle
Score3861
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenSeattle
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
2 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureBergenSeattle
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m40 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenSeattle
City population291,189737,015
People per km²3,3391,996
Museums within 10 km3127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3278
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.