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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bled or Copper Mountain?

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
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Copper Mountain for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Copper Mountain’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, Copper Mountain 3: Bled leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Bled and Copper Mountain are level on 20.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Copper Mountain 4: Bled leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Copper Mountain 12: Copper Mountain leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Copper Mountain 55: Bled leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Copper Mountain 62: Copper Mountain leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Copper Mountain 48: Bled leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Copper Mountain 8: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Copper Mountain 18: Bled leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Copper Mountain 8: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Copper Mountain 28: Bled leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Bled
Best match
40match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors 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

Copper Mountain in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 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.

Copper Mountain's temperatures are measured 35 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Copper Mountain 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). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledCopper Mountain
Official languageSlovene-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m2,955 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledCopper Mountain
City population4,969650
People per km²268
Museums within 10 km40
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.