VacationSelector

Bled or Edinburgh?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BledEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
BledEdinburgh
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance76 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 51 points.51
BledEdinburgh
Score1970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre431,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1335
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 30 points.30
BledEdinburgh
Score2757
Museums within 10 km1630
Museums within 2 km of centre122
Share of museums within 2 km %673
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 62 points.62
BledEdinburgh
Score264
Drinking venues within 4 km431,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8474
Nightclubs within 4 km165
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
BledEdinburgh
Score3335
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %21
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km9 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
BledEdinburgh
Score1772
Tourist attractions within 2 km787
Park area within 2 km9 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 38 points.38
BledEdinburgh
Score2260
Notable places within 2 km14126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 18 points.18
BledEdinburgh
Score7254
Price level global59.684.9
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Bled leads by 6 points.6
BledEdinburgh
Score5751
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledEdinburgh
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
3 h 10 m
€116-161
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureBledEdinburgh
Official languageSloveneEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation501 m47 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledEdinburgh
City population4,969488,050
People per km²261,884
Museums within 10 km432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre1778
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.