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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bled or Inverness?

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

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Inverness for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’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, Inverness 20: Bled leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Inverness 36: Inverness leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Inverness 27: Inverness leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Inverness 28: Inverness leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Inverness 84: Bled leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Inverness 56: Bled leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Inverness 55: Bled leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Inverness 48: Bled leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Inverness 30: Inverness leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Inverness 38: Bled leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Inverness 33: Inverness leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Inverness 30: Bled leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Inverness.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bled
40match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 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.

Inverness 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.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledInverness
Official languageSloveneEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation501 m7 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledInverness
City population4,96947,380
People per km²262,289
Museums within 10 km43
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.