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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Yellow colonial houses in the walled city, Cartagena
CartagenaYellow colonial houses in the walled city

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Cartagena by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Cartagena?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bled for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Bled’s own page.

Choose Cartagena for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Cartagena’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bled 50, Cartagena 70: Cartagena leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Cartagena 62: Cartagena leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Cartagena 68: Cartagena leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Cartagena 70: Cartagena leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Cartagena 46: Bled leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Cartagena 33: Bled leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Cartagena 40: Bled leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Cartagena 54: Bled leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Cartagena 48: Cartagena leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Cartagena 60: Cartagena leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Cartagena 40: Cartagena leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Cartagena 40: Bled leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Cartagena.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bled
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Cartagena
Best match
53match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bled in July

27 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
154 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Cartagena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
124 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bled's temperatures are measured 36 km from the centre, at Klagenfurt.

Bled has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Cartagena: 1991-2020 normals, Cartagena / Rafael Nunez (3.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledCartagena
Official languageSloveneSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Colombian Peso (COP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112123
Elevation501 m2 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsRafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)2 km from centre26 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days19 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledCartagena
City population4,969914,552
People per km²261,599
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.