VacationSelector

Bled or Cologne?

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.

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BledCologne
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Cologne are level on 0.
BledCologne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km340
Coast distance76 km256 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 53 points.53
BledCologne
Score1972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre431,142
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1335
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 33 points.33
BledCologne
Score2760
Museums within 10 km1647
Museums within 2 km of centre127
Share of museums within 2 km %657
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 62 points.62
BledCologne
Score264
Drinking venues within 4 km431,107
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36727
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8466
Nightclubs within 4 km190
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 38 points.38
BledCologne
Score3371
Protected land share 50 km %2053
Landscape blanket share 50 km %252
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 55 points.55
BledCologne
Score1772
Tourist attractions within 2 km743
Park area within 2 km9 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km16
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 31 points.31
BledCologne
Score2253
Notable places within 2 km1481
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 12 points.12
BledCologne
Score7260
Price level global59.675.9
Daily budget€131€163
Year-round weather. Cologne leads by 3 points.3
BledCologne
Score5760
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C6.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm48 mm to 81 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledCologne
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 40 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 10 m
€174-186
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 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

MeasureBledCologne
Official languageSloveneGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m59 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledCologne
City population4,9691,024,621
People per km²262,530
Museums within 10 km440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre1784

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.