VacationSelector

Bergen or Split?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

BergenSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 19 points.19
BergenSplit
Score5473
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1787
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bergen leads by 3 points.3
BergenSplit
Score4138
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2015
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 1 points.1
BergenSplit
Score5152
Museums within 10 km3518
Museums within 2 km of centre2516
Share of museums within 2 km %7189
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Split leads by 14 points.14
BergenSplit
Score2741
Drinking venues within 4 km217379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9369
Nightclubs within 4 km423
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 18 points.18
BergenSplit
Score2038
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5562
Park area within 2 km36 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 14 points.14
BergenSplit
Score4026
Tourist attractions within 2 km229
Park area within 2 km36 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 10 points.10
BergenSplit
Score5242
Notable places within 2 km7743
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 26 points.26
BergenSplit
Score5480
Price level global85.148.5
Daily budget€203€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 31 points.31
BergenSplit
Score3869
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm25 mm to 117 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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F
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBergenSplit
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 109 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 50 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€205-272
1 stop
SPU · 12 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

MeasureBergenSplit
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiCroatian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 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 m0 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenSplit
City population291,189160,577
People per km²3,339
Museums within 10 km3111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre3231
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.