VacationSelector

Bergen or Venice?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BergenVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 15 points.15
BergenVenice
Score5469
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1720
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 4 points.4
BergenVenice
Score4145
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2010
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 21 points.21
BergenVenice
Score5172
Museums within 10 km3557
Museums within 2 km of centre2545
Share of museums within 2 km %7179
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Venice leads by 8 points.8
BergenVenice
Score2735
Drinking venues within 4 km217342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9389
Nightclubs within 4 km43
Nature & day trips. Bergen leads by 3 points.3
BergenVenice
Score2017
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5570
Park area within 2 km36 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 17 points.17
BergenVenice
Score4057
Tourist attractions within 2 km2272
Park area within 2 km36 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 31 points.31
BergenVenice
Score5283
Notable places within 2 km77464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
BergenVenice
Score5468
Price level global85.164.9
Daily budget€203€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 28 points.28
BergenVenice
Score3866
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm36 mm to 106 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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bergen
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenVenice
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€78-139
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TSF · 26 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
TSF · 26 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 7 km
Las PalmasLPA
5 h 15 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureBergenVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenVenice
City population291,189250,369
People per km²3,339602
Museums within 10 km3152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre3246
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.