VacationSelector

Belfast or Bled?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Bled
28
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BelfastBled
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastBled
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km103
Coast distance1 km76 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 37 points.37
BelfastBled
Score5619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43243
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3113
Museums & heritage. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
BelfastBled
Score2927
Museums within 10 km1816
Museums within 2 km of centre61
Share of museums within 2 km %336
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 46 points.46
BelfastBled
Score482
Drinking venues within 4 km55043
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre34836
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6384
Nightclubs within 4 km291
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 20 points.20
BelfastBled
Score5333
Protected land share 50 km %1920
Landscape blanket share 50 km %132
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares9 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 31 points.31
BelfastBled
Score4817
Tourist attractions within 2 km167
Park area within 2 km68 hectares9 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 20 points.20
BelfastBled
Score4222
Notable places within 2 km4314
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 18 points.18
BelfastBled
Score5472
Price level global84.959.6
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Bled leads by 6 points.6
BelfastBled
Score5157
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C1.3 °C to 26.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Bled
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastBled
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 132 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
€188-230
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 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

MeasureBelfastBled
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
Elevation3 m501 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBled
City population345,0064,969
People per km²3,00026
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4417
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.