VacationSelector

Bled or Chicago?

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 with your weighting.

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BledChicago
Beaches & swimming. Chicago leads by 53 points.53
BledChicago
Score053
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km312
Coast distance76 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 62 points.62
BledChicago
Score1981
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432,147
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1337
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 19 points.19
BledChicago
Score2746
Museums within 10 km1645
Museums within 2 km of centre120
Share of museums within 2 km %644
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 60 points.60
BledChicago
Score262
Drinking venues within 4 km431,123
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36728
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8465
Nightclubs within 4 km151
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 5 points.5
BledChicago
Score3338
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 38 points.38
BledChicago
Score1755
Tourist attractions within 2 km718
Park area within 2 km9 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 48 points.48
BledChicago
Score2270
Notable places within 2 km14217
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 29 points.29
BledChicago
Score7243
Price level global59.6100
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Bled and Chicago are level on 57.
BledChicago
Score5757
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C0.2 °C to 29.4 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm54 mm to 121 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Chicago
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBledChicago
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 15 m
€180-215
LJU · 31 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 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

MeasureBledChicago
Official languageSlovene
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m179 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledChicago
City population4,9692,746,388
People per km²264,529
Museums within 10 km443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre1787
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bled or Chicago somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.