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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Gold Coast?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Gold Coast for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’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, Gold Coast 92: Gold Coast leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Gold Coast 47: Gold Coast leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Gold Coast 15: Bled leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Gold Coast 55: Gold Coast leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Gold Coast 82: Bled leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Gold Coast 52: Bled leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Gold Coast 89: Gold Coast leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Gold Coast 45: Bled leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Gold Coast 40: Gold Coast leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Gold Coast 35: Bled leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Gold Coast 30: Gold Coast leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Gold Coast 42: Bled leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Gold Coast.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Gold Coast
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 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.

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledGold Coast
Official languageSloveneEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10
Emergency number112000
Elevation501 m12 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledGold Coast
City population4,969607,665
People per km²26433
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.