VacationSelector

Bled or Boston?

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

Your match

Bled
28
match

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

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BledBoston
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BledBoston
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km368
Coast distance76 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 54 points.54
BledBoston
Score1973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre431,452
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1332
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 16 points.16
BledBoston
Score2743
Museums within 10 km1679
Museums within 2 km of centre127
Share of museums within 2 km %634
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Boston leads by 56 points.56
BledBoston
Score258
Drinking venues within 4 km43886
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36513
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8458
Nightclubs within 4 km143
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 20 points.20
BledBoston
Score3353
Protected land share 50 km %2012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km9 hectares116 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 36 points.36
BledBoston
Score1753
Tourist attractions within 2 km728
Park area within 2 km9 hectares116 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 36 points.36
BledBoston
Score2258
Notable places within 2 km14111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 29 points.29
BledBoston
Score7243
Price level global59.6100
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Bled leads by 1 points.1
BledBoston
Score5756
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C2.9 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm79 mm to 107 mm
Dry months20
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
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledBoston
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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

MeasureBledBoston
Official languageSlovene
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m43 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledBoston
City population4,969675,647
People per km²262,910
Museums within 10 km451
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre1774
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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.