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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License.

Bangkok or Bled?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bangkok for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’s own page.

Choose Bled for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Bled’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bangkok 12, Bled 50: Bled leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Bled 20: Bangkok leads by 75 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Bled 22: Bangkok leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Bled 5: Bangkok leads by 80 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Bled 86: Bled leads by 61 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Bled 70: Bangkok leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Bled 60: Bled leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Bled 58: Bled leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Bled 5: Bangkok leads by 75 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Bled 45: Bangkok leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Bled 5: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Bled 55: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Bled.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Bled
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Bled in July

27 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
154 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bled's temperatures are measured 36 km from the centre, at Klagenfurt.

Bled has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokBled
Official languageThaiSlovene
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m501 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBled
City population5,676,6484,969
People per km²3,61926
Museums within 10 km594
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.