VacationSelector

Bergen or West Palm Beach?

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, level with your weighting

Bergen
42
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BergenWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 34 points.34
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score5488
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1710
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bergen leads by 4 points.4
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score4137
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2014
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 34 points.34
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score5117
Museums within 10 km355
Museums within 2 km of centre253
Share of museums within 2 km %7160
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bergen leads by 7 points.7
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score2720
Drinking venues within 4 km217132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20190
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9368
Nightclubs within 4 km410
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 49 points.49
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score2069
Protected land share 50 km %115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5545
Park area within 2 km36 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 19 points.19
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score4021
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km36 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 40 points.40
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score5212
Notable places within 2 km778
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bergen leads by 11 points.11
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score5443
Price level global85.1100
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 37 points.37
BergenWest Palm Beach
Score3875
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 290 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months00
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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Bergen
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenWest Palm Beach
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
€82-83
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 15 m
€58-170
1 stop
BGO · 12 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureBergenWest Palm Beach
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m6 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenWest Palm Beach
City population291,189117,415
People per km²3,339786
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3218
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.