Best time to visit Bergen

Bergen is a city of two halves. July scores 62 and February scores 11 — a 51-point swing, which is the difference between a holiday and an endurance test. The month you pick matters more here than almost anywhere. The good window runs June to August — 3 months within ten points of the best.

July is the warmest month at 19.2 °C and January the coolest at 1.7 °C — a 17.5 °C spread across the year. It never reaches 30 °C in an average year, which takes heat off the list of reasons to avoid any particular month. At the other end, 80 nights a year fall below freezing: the winter here is a real one.

There is a real wet season here. January, August, September and December carry the rain — up to 23 wet days in a month — while April to June drop as low as 17. That 6-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Bergen, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight swings hard — 19 hours at midsummer against 5.8 at midwinter. That 13.2-hour difference changes how much fits into a day more than the temperature does.

The three strongest months are July, August, June. The one to think twice about is February. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Bergen month by month