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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Chengdu?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Chengdu for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’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, Chengdu 5: Bled leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 66 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Chengdu 60: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 63 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Chengdu 68: Bled leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Chengdu 65: Chengdu leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 59 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Chengdu 50: Chengdu leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Chengdu.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife 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
15 hdaylight a day

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 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). Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledChengdu
Official languageSlovenePutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation501 m500 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledChengdu
City population4,96920,937,757
People per km²261,456
Museums within 10 km410
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.