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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Bled or Hiroshima?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Bled leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Hiroshima 62: Bled leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bled and Hiroshima are level on 60.
Getting around. Bled 58, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Hiroshima 50: Bled leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on shopping and food and drink 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledHiroshima
Official languageSloveneJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation501 m3 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledHiroshima
City population4,9691,198,021
People per km²261,324
Museums within 10 km418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.