VacationSelector

Bled or Genoa?

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.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Genoa if swimming matters and you want a city around you: 37 beaches nearby, four months of sea warm enough to use them, and far more restaurants, bars and museums close to the centre than Bled offers.

Choose Bled if you want a small, quiet base with protected countryside on the doorstep and day trips to UNESCO-listed places, and you can do without a coast and without mild winters.

Scoreboard

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

BledGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
BledGenoa
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km337
Coast distance76 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 31 points.31
BledGenoa
Score1950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1314
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 28 points.28
BledGenoa
Score2755
Museums within 10 km1647
Museums within 2 km of centre133
Share of museums within 2 km %670
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 48 points.48
BledGenoa
Score250
Drinking venues within 4 km43637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8466
Nightclubs within 4 km117
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
BledGenoa
Score3335
Protected land share 50 km %208
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km9 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 21 points.21
BledGenoa
Score1738
Tourist attractions within 2 km721
Park area within 2 km9 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 39 points.39
BledGenoa
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 4 points.4
BledGenoa
Score7268
Price level global59.664.9
Daily budget€131€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 16 points.16
BledGenoa
Score5773
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months23
0255075100

Where they differ

Bled's advantage is the land around it: 20% is protected against 8% around Genoa, day trips reach 3 UNESCO-listed places against Genoa's 1, and there is a theme park within reach where Genoa has none.

Genoa leads on the things you use daily: 37 beaches nearby against Bled's 3, sea reaching 25°C at its warmest, many times as many bars and clubs, and far more notable places within walking distance of the centre.

Where they are alike

Open country is where the two come closest, by different routes: a much larger share of protected land around Bled, and about three times as much park space near the centre in Genoa. Either way, walking and days out are part of the trip.

Cost lands close too, with national price estimates for restaurants and hotels of €131 and €155, country figures rather than measurements of either city. Peak summer warmth is comparable as well, topping out at 27°C in Bled and 28°C in Genoa.

Which traveller are you?

If swimming is the point of the trip, take Genoa: 37 beaches nearby and four months of sea at 21°C or more, against a lake town with no sea season at all.

Walkers and quiet-seekers should take Bled. 20% of the surrounding land is protected, day trips reach 3 UNESCO-listed places, and nightlife is close to absent, which may be the reason to go.

Families split. Genoa has far more tourist attractions and park space near the centre, plus the beaches; Bled has a theme park within reach where Genoa has none, and much less ground to cover.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €131 and €155, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel price levels, not measurements of either place. A much-visited lake town can sit well above its own national average, by more than the gap between these two figures, so neither is shown here to be the cheaper trip.

Warm and dry are not the same month: Bled's warmest months are also its wettest, peaking near 139mm. Genoa's beach advantage is concentrated in exactly the months when its coast is busiest, and its sea sits below swimming warmth for most of the year.

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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bled works from June to September, when highs run 25-27°C. Those are also its wettest months, above 100mm each, so pack for rain, and the shoulder either side is cool while winter is properly cold.

Genoa is the stronger summer pick: July and August are its driest months, 12-20mm, with highs of 27-28°C and the sea at its warmest. Autumn brings the rain, November near 122mm, though its winters stay mild in a way Bled's are not.

Getting there

Flying fromBledGenoa
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
MadridMAD
2 h 30 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
AthensATH
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
55 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 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

MeasureBledGenoa
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 m20 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledGenoa
City population4,969558,745
People per km²262,325
Museums within 10 km451
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre1741
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 months

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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.