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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License.

Bath 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 Bath for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Bled for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Bath 10, Bled 50: Bled leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Bled 20: Bath leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Bled 22: Bath leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Bled 5: Bath leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Bled 86: Bled leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Bled 70: Bath leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Bled 60: Bled leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Bled 58: Bath leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Bled 5: Bath leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Bled 45: Bled leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Bled 5: Bath leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Bled 55: Bath leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Bled.

Your match

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

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

Bled
40match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath 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.

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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathBled
Official languageEnglishSlovene
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m501 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBled
City population94,0924,969
People per km²3,24526
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.