VacationSelector

Bath or Bled?

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

Your match

Bath
✓ Best match
40
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Bled
28
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathBled
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathBled
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance29 km76 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 27 points.27
BathBled
Score4619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre24543
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2613
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 20 points.20
BathBled
Score4727
Museums within 10 km2016
Museums within 2 km of centre141
Share of museums within 2 km %706
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Bath leads by 34 points.34
BathBled
Score362
Drinking venues within 4 km32043
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre24036
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7584
Nightclubs within 4 km111
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathBled
Score4433
Protected land share 50 km %2820
Landscape blanket share 50 km %272
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares9 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 23 points.23
BathBled
Score4017
Tourist attractions within 2 km147
Park area within 2 km45 hectares9 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 10 points.10
BathBled
Score3222
Notable places within 2 km2514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 18 points.18
BathBled
Score5472
Price level global84.959.6
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Bled leads by 2 points.2
BathBled
Score5557
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C1.3 °C to 26.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm28 mm to 139 mm
Dry months02
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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Bled
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathBled
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
BariBRI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 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

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 centre116 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3817
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.