VacationSelector

Bled or Cape Town?

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

Your match

Bled
28
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Cape Town
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BledCape Town
Beaches & swimming. Cape Town leads by 60 points.60
BledCape Town
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km329
Coast distance76 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Cape Town leads by 48 points.48
BledCape Town
Score1967
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43650
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1342
Museums & heritage. Cape Town leads by 27 points.27
BledCape Town
Score2754
Museums within 10 km1625
Museums within 2 km of centre120
Share of museums within 2 km %680
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Cape Town leads by 45 points.45
BledCape Town
Score247
Drinking venues within 4 km43483
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36389
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8481
Nightclubs within 4 km147
Nature & day trips. Cape Town leads by 3 points.3
BledCape Town
Score3336
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km9 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Cape Town leads by 19 points.19
BledCape Town
Score1736
Tourist attractions within 2 km719
Park area within 2 km9 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Cape Town leads by 23 points.23
BledCape Town
Score2245
Notable places within 2 km1451
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cape Town leads by 13 points.13
BledCape Town
Score7285
Price level global59.640.5
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Cape Town leads by 29 points.29
BledCape Town
Score5786
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C18 °C to 27.5 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm10 mm to 97 mm
Dry months26
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
Cape Town
27
28
26
24
21
18
18
18
20
22
24
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Cape Town
18
18
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
16
17
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Cape Town
10
11
13
42
65
97
89
76
47
32
27
13
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cape Town
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Cape Town
12
10
9
8
6
6
6
7
8
9
10
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBledCape Town
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
12 h 5 m
€634-815
CPT · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
10 h 35 m
€717-799
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
11 h 45 m
€632-724
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
11 h 40 m
€742-801
2 stops
CPT · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
9 h 40 m
€611-615
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 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

MeasureBledCape Town
Official languageSloveneEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m5 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre44 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledCape Town
City population4,9693,776,313
People per km²261,538
Museums within 10 km422
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre1765
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.