VacationSelector

Barcelona or Bled?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Bled
28
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BarcelonaBled
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
BarcelonaBled
Score650
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km203
Coast distance2 km76 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 71 points.71
BarcelonaBled
Score9019
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,78643
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4113
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 41 points.41
BarcelonaBled
Score6827
Museums within 10 km10516
Museums within 2 km of centre491
Share of museums within 2 km %476
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 80 points.80
BarcelonaBled
Score822
Drinking venues within 4 km2,71143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,64136
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6184
Nightclubs within 4 km2451
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 17 points.17
BarcelonaBled
Score5033
Protected land share 50 km %1020
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares9 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 48 points.48
BarcelonaBled
Score6517
Tourist attractions within 2 km607
Park area within 2 km49 hectares9 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 51 points.51
BarcelonaBled
Score7322
Notable places within 2 km25814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 1 points.1
BarcelonaBled
Score7172
Price level global60.859.6
Daily budget€122€131
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 21 points.21
BarcelonaBled
Score7857
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C1.3 °C to 26.7 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm28 mm to 139 mm
Dry months52
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Bled
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaBled
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€173-293
BCN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€62-99
BCN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 40 m
€116-164
BCN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBarcelonaBled
Official languageSpanishSlovene
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m501 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaBled
City population1,731,6494,969
People per km²17,09426
Museums within 10 km954
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre12817
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.