Bergen
Bergen, Norway: the weather, the air, the distance to the coast and what a month costs, each with its source. This page assesses no one.
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A year here
4 of 12 months have a mean temperature inside 10–26 °C, a band we chose and apply to every city alike. Thirty-year normals from NASA POWER, measured at this city’s own coordinates.
- Jan-0-2-4
- Feb0-2-5
- Mar2-0-3
- Apr741
- May1184
- Jun15128
- Jul171411
- Aug171410
- Sept13108
- Oct864
- Nov420
- Dec1-1-3
Each cell: average daily high, monthly mean, average daily low, in °C. These are averages of daily values over 2001–2020, not records — the hottest day is higher and is not shown.
How near the sea is
1.4 km
Straight-line distance from this city’s coordinates to the nearest coastline, computed from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors — Coastline (ne_10m_coastline) v5.1.2 at 1:10,000,000. Natural Earth is public domain, and anyone can download the same file and get the same number.
It is a distance and not an access. A city 8 km from the coast across a mountain ridge is not 8 km from the sea in any sense you would use, and the figure says nothing about what is on that coast — a container terminal and a bay give the same number. The coastline is the outline of the dataset’s land, so a river wide enough to separate land counts as coast.
Air through the year
Bergen, 2025: PM2.5 averaged over 5 reference monitor(s) within 25 km. The World Health Organization’s guideline is 5 µg/m³ and its first interim target is 35.
- Jan7
- Feb6
- Mar6
- Apr6
- May5
- Jun5
- Jul4
- Aug4
- Sept4
- Oct6
- Nov6
- Dec6
How this city rates
- Safety
- 99 / 100measured
- Healthcare
- 93 / 100measured
- Air quality
- 98 / 100measured
A month here, for a reference household
Reference household: two adults aged 38 and 37, a one-bedroom home, no children.
Residence fees and health cover are those of EEA free movement (register within three months of arrival). The low, middle and high figures are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles where a publisher states them; each line says who published it.
illustrative Money figures on this page are illustrative unless the figure names its publisher. The illustrative ones are arranged so the shape is right — a larger flat costs more than a smaller one, and the expensive cities are the expensive ones — and they are accurate in nothing. Do not plan on them.
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| Line | P25The lower quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall below it. Read it as the cheaper end of what is realistic, not as a bargain you can count on. | P50The middle of the estimate range: half the observations fall below it and half above. It is the figure to read first — not a promise, but the most representative single number we have. | P75The upper quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall above it. Budget against this one if you want room to be wrong. | Basis |
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| Rent, 1-bedroom* | not published | €1,103 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Statistisk sentralbyrå (Rental market survey) More about this figureBergen, observed 2 October 2026Measured in 2025.Covers every rented home in the city, including tenants who signed years ago.Rents in existing contracts — a newcomer is usually asked more. |
| Electricity, gas and fuel* | not published | €283 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2022.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household resident in SSB's centrality class 2, «Nest mest sentrale kommuner», of which Bergen is one, per household, Forbruksundersøkelsen 2022, converted from SSB's annual figure to a month. It is a class of municipalities and not the city — the finest geography the 2022 survey publishes — so it is a proxy. Every household of every size, renting or owning; SSB states no household size for the cut.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Water, sewerage and waste* | €57 | €57 | €57 | Published figurePublished by Bergen kommune (Bergen Vann) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: The municipality's own worked example: a dwelling of 120 m² bruksareal in Bergen, water and sewerage, stipulated consumption, 2026 prices including 15% VAT. Bergen stipulates 1.3 m³ of water per square metre of floor area, which is why its charge per square metre is not comparable with Oslo's. It is not the reader's flat and it is not metered: Bergen illustrates a metered four-person household separately at kr 10,647.62 a year.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12). |
| Internet and phone* | not published | €135 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2022.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household resident in SSB's centrality class 2, «Nest mest sentrale kommuner», of which Bergen is one, per household, Forbruksundersøkelsen 2022, converted from SSB's annual figure to a month. It is a class of municipalities and not the city — the finest geography the 2022 survey publishes — so it is a proxy. Every household of every size, renting or owning; SSB states no household size for the cut.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Groceries* | not published | €480 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB) More about this figureAdults: 2 · children: 0Measured in 2022.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: Per person, per month, averaged over every private household in Norway in 2022: SSB's national food bill per household (Forbruksundersøkelsen 2022, whose household is a «kosthusholdning» — «alle personer som er fast bosatt på samme adresse og som har felles matbudsjett») divided by SSB's persons per private household for 2022 (a «privathusholdning» — «personer som er bosatt i samme privatbolig»). The divisor counts everyone in one dwelling, and a dwelling can hold more than one household that shares a budget, so the divisor is somewhat larger than the survey's own household and this per-person figure reads a little low. It is the national figure, not Bergen's, and the average person rather than the average adult: a child is charged the same.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).This is the survey’s average person. Food has strong economies of scale, and the publisher states one figure per person and no split by household size — so a larger household is charged here as though each member shopped alone.65,751 NOK a year per household (2022) ÷ 2.12 people per household (2022), both published by Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB); the household size is the publisher’s household statistic, which counts everyone living in one dwelling, not the survey’s ownShown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Transport* | €130 | €130 | €130 | Published figurePublished by Skyss (Vestland fylkeskommune) More about this figureAdults: 2Measured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Skyss's 30-day ticket for one adult (18 to 66), one zone, on buses and Bybanen; zone A covers the municipality of Bergen. Prices from 1 May 2026.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Health cover* | €0 | €0 | €0 | Published figurePublished by Lovdata — folketrygdloven More about this figureA premium or rate the state sets.Per member, by age bandMeasured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Every person, any age, whose stay in Norway is intended to last at least twelve months: «Personer som er bosatt i Norge, er pliktige medlemmer i folketrygden. Som bosatt i Norge regnes den som oppholder seg i Norge, når oppholdet er ment å vare eller har vart minst 12 måneder.» No enrolment fee and no premium. User fees are capped at 3 278 kroner per person in 2026; a shorter stay gives no membership, and an S1 pensioner stays covered by the paying state.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Schooling (state schooling)* | €0 | €0 | €0 | Published figurePublished by Kunnskapsdepartementet (opplæringslova) More about this figureChildren: 0Measured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Grunnskoleopplæring, per child. Opplæringslova § 2-5: "Grunnskoleopplæring skal vere gratis. Kommunen skal ikkje krevje at elevane eller foreldra dekkjer utgifter knytte til grunnskoleopplæringa, til dømes utgifter til undervisningsmateriell, transport i skoletida, leirskoleopphald eller andre skoleturar." — teaching materials, transport during the school day, camp school and school trips are all forbidden charges. School meals are not mentioned.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Building or service charge | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Statutory levies and licences | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Residence permit renewals | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Domestic help | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Household and leisure baseline | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePeople: 2 |
| Total | not published | €2,188 | not published | This total does not include Building or service charge, Statutory levies and licences, Residence permit renewals, Domestic help and Household and leisure baseline, which nobody publishes for this city. It is the sum of what we hold, not of what the household will pay.No low or high total, because the spread of these lines was never published: Rent, 1-bedroom, Electricity, gas and fuel, Internet and phone and Groceries. Everything else here is either a measured range or an exact price. |
– = not published by the source
Routes we hold for Norway
- EEA free movement (register within three months of arrival) — Checked against the law
- Residence permit as a skilled worker — Draft — not checked by us yet
Every requirement, as its rule states it, is on the page for Norway
Provenance
Rule set 1.58.0-2026-10-11 · read on 26 October 2026. Every figure on this page was computed by the engine from versioned rule files. No language model produced any number here, and translation happens only after the calculation.
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