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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bled or Cebu?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Cebu for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Cebu’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, Cebu 60: Cebu leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Cebu 58: Cebu leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Cebu 40: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Cebu 46: Cebu leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Cebu 60: Bled leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Cebu 44: Bled leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Cebu 45: Bled leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Cebu 26: Bled leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Cebu 44: Cebu leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Cebu 80: Cebu leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Cebu 25: Cebu leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Cebu 50: Bled leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Cebu.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on nightlife and shopping 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

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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). Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledCebu
Official languageSloveneEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m135 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledCebu
City population4,969965,332
People per km²263,065
Museums within 10 km45
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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. 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.

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.