VacationSelector

Bled or Brussels?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BledBrussels
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Brussels are level on 0.
BledBrussels
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance76 km56 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 62 points.62
BledBrussels
Score1981
Restaurants within 2 km of centre431,779
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1344
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 53 points.53
BledBrussels
Score2780
Museums within 10 km16120
Museums within 2 km of centre159
Share of museums within 2 km %649
Unesco sites within 50 km310
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 66 points.66
BledBrussels
Score268
Drinking venues within 4 km431,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36862
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8461
Nightclubs within 4 km184
Nature & day trips. Bled leads by 2 points.2
BledBrussels
Score3331
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %21
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 39 points.39
BledBrussels
Score1756
Tourist attractions within 2 km728
Park area within 2 km9 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 51 points.51
BledBrussels
Score2273
Notable places within 2 km14254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 12 points.12
BledBrussels
Score7260
Price level global59.676.2
Daily budget€131€180
Year-round weather. Bled and Brussels are level on 57.
BledBrussels
Score5757
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C6.1 °C to 23.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm47 mm to 90 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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledBrussels
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 11 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 30 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBledBrussels
Official languageSloveneFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m70 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledBrussels
City population4,969195,546
People per km²265,908
Museums within 10 km4105
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km310
Distinct cuisines in the centre17109

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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. 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.