VacationSelector

Bled or Inverness?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bled
✓ Best match
28
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Inverness
25
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BledInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
BledInverness
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance76 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Inverness leads by 2 points.2
BledInverness
Score1921
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1311
Museums & heritage. Bled leads by 7 points.7
BledInverness
Score2720
Museums within 10 km166
Museums within 2 km of centre15
Share of museums within 2 km %683
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Inverness leads by 13 points.13
BledInverness
Score215
Drinking venues within 4 km43113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3698
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8487
Nightclubs within 4 km14
Nature & day trips. Bled leads by 24 points.24
BledInverness
Score339
Protected land share 50 km %2012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %211
Land share of disc %10088
Park area within 2 km9 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Bled leads by 17 points.17
BledInverness
Score170
Tourist attractions within 2 km73
Park area within 2 km9 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 2 points.2
BledInverness
Score2224
Notable places within 2 km1416
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 18 points.18
BledInverness
Score7254
Price level global59.684.9
Daily budget€131—
Year-round weather. Bled leads by 5 points.5
BledInverness
Score5752
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months21
0255075100

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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Daytime high, °C
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBledInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 25 m
€170-187
2 stops
TRS · 78 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 35 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 45 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
KerkyraCFU
1 h 45 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 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 2026-09 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

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 centre28 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre1715
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.