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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bled or Hoi An?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Hoi An for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Hoi An’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, Hoi An 72: Hoi An leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Hoi An 68: Hoi An leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Hoi An 66: Hoi An leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Hoi An 28: Hoi An leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Hoi An 63: Bled leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Hoi An 50: Bled leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Hoi An 58: Bled leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Hoi An 48: Bled leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Hoi An 57: Hoi An leads by 52 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Hoi An 88: Hoi An leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Hoi An 24: Hoi An leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Hoi An 65: Hoi An leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Hoi An.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Hoi An
Best match
57match

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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledHoi An
Official languageSloveneVietnamese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dong (VND)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation501 m13 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBledHoi An
City population4,969121,716
People per km²26-
Museums within 10 km45
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.