VacationSelector

Bled or Galway?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Galway
✓ Best match
39
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BledGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
BledGalway
Score051
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km313
Coast distance76 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Galway leads by 18 points.18
BledGalway
Score1937
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1320
Museums & heritage. Bled leads by 7 points.7
BledGalway
Score2720
Museums within 10 km165
Museums within 2 km of centre15
Share of museums within 2 km %6100
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Galway leads by 24 points.24
BledGalway
Score226
Drinking venues within 4 km43185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8483
Nightclubs within 4 km18
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 22 points.22
BledGalway
Score3355
Protected land share 50 km %20—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km9 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Galway leads by 8 points.8
BledGalway
Score1725
Tourist attractions within 2 km75
Park area within 2 km9 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bled and Galway are level on 22.
BledGalway
Score2222
Notable places within 2 km1414
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 15 points.15
BledGalway
Score7257
Price level global59.680.2
Daily budget€131€187
Year-round weather. Bled leads by 3 points.3
BledGalway
Score5754
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 25 m
€170-187
2 stops
TRS · 78 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
WroclawWRO
1 h 30 m
no fares
RJK · 133 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MaltaMLA
2 h 0 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 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

MeasureBledGalway
Official languageSloveneEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m25 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledGalway
City population4,96983,456
People per km²261,563
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre1725
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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.