VacationSelector

Bled or Florence?

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.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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The verdict

Choose Florence if the trip is built around museums and heritage, with most of the notable places within walking distance of each other, plenty of restaurants and bars for the evening, and winters that stay around 11°C.

Choose Bled if you want quiet: 3 beaches nearby, 20% of the surrounding land protected, and evenings with very little going on.

Scoreboard

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

BledFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Florence are level on 0.
BledFlorence
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance76 km78 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Florence leads by 40 points.40
BledFlorence
Score1959
Restaurants within 2 km of centre431,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1315
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 55 points.55
BledFlorence
Score2782
Museums within 10 km16132
Museums within 2 km of centre193
Share of museums within 2 km %670
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Florence leads by 54 points.54
BledFlorence
Score256
Drinking venues within 4 km43818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8473
Nightclubs within 4 km134
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 5 points.5
BledFlorence
Score3338
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %22
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 35 points.35
BledFlorence
Score1752
Tourist attractions within 2 km730
Park area within 2 km9 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 53 points.53
BledFlorence
Score2275
Notable places within 2 km14292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 4 points.4
BledFlorence
Score7268
Price level global59.664.9
Daily budget€131€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 11 points.11
BledFlorence
Score5768
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months22
0255075100

Where they differ

Bled has 3 beaches nearby where Florence has none, 20% of the surrounding land is protected against 9% around Florence, and it has 1 theme park within reach where Florence has none.

Florence has many times as many museums, grouped tightly around the centre, and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Bled's 3. Far more notable places sit within walking distance, restaurants near the centre are many times more numerous and cover a wider range of kitchens, and bars and clubs likewise, most of them central.

Where they are alike

Neither is a place to swim. Florence has no beaches at all, Bled's 3 are the whole of the offer, and neither has a month with sea at 21°C or more.

Both also have green space within reach, in different forms: protected countryside around Bled, park space near the centre in Florence. And the two national daily budget estimates, €131 for Bled's country and €155 for Florence's, are not far apart.

Which traveller are you?

Museum-first travellers should take Florence: many times as many museums as Bled, grouped tightly near the centre, most notable places within walking distance of one another, and 4 UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach.

Walkers who want quiet will prefer Bled, with 20% of the surrounding land protected and 3 beaches nearby, though its warmest months, at 25-27°C, are also its wettest.

Families are split. Florence has far more attractions and park space near the centre, and much more choice for eating out; Bled has the one theme park within reach and far quieter evenings.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €131 and €155, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of either city. A heavily visited city can sit well above its own country average, and that gap can exceed the gap between the two countries, so these figures cannot tell you which trip costs more.

The warm months and the dry months do not line up. Bled's warmest months are also its wettest, 127-139mm, so summer outdoors is wetter than the temperature suggests. Florence's driest months are its hottest, 32-33°C, and that is when its compact centre is busiest.

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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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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Florence
9
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
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bled is at its best from June to August, when highs reach 25-27°C, but those are also its wettest months, at 108-139mm. May is much drier, at 86mm, and still warm enough for long days outside.

Florence is best in May and June, with highs of 24-29°C and modest rain. July and August are hotter, 32-33°C, and the driest months of the year. September and October turn wet, 102-125mm. Winter stays mild, around 11°C.

Getting there

Flying fromBledFlorence
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 85 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBledFlorence
Official languageSloveneItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m50 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledFlorence
City population4,969360,930
People per km²263,528
Museums within 10 km4140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre1762

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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.