VacationSelector

Bergen or Zadar?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BergenZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 19 points.19
BergenZadar
Score5473
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1749
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bergen leads by 16 points.16
BergenZadar
Score4125
Restaurants within 2 km of centre237143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2011
Museums & heritage. Bergen leads by 18 points.18
BergenZadar
Score5133
Museums within 10 km358
Museums within 2 km of centre258
Share of museums within 2 km %71100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Bergen leads by 2 points.2
BergenZadar
Score2725
Drinking venues within 4 km217194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre201139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9372
Nightclubs within 4 km44
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 35 points.35
BergenZadar
Score2055
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5547
Park area within 2 km36 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Bergen leads by 9 points.9
BergenZadar
Score4031
Tourist attractions within 2 km229
Park area within 2 km36 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bergen leads by 21 points.21
BergenZadar
Score5231
Notable places within 2 km7723
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 26 points.26
BergenZadar
Score5480
Price level global85.148.5
Daily budget€203€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 31 points.31
BergenZadar
Score3869
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 19.7 °C10.4 °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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Daytime high, °C
Bergen
5
5
7
11
15
18
20
19
16
12
8
5
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bergen
7
6
5
6
9
12
15
16
15
12
10
8
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bergen
253
208
202
139
109
133
159
206
248
269
273
290
Zadar
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
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBergenZadar
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€129-176
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 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 · 107 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 25 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 30 m
no fares
BGO · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 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

MeasureBergenZadar
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 m5 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenZadar
City population291,18970,779
People per km²3,339
Museums within 10 km311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3217
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.