VacationSelector

Bled or Istanbul?

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

Your match

Bled
28
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Istanbul
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

BledIstanbul
Beaches & swimming. Istanbul leads by 43 points.43
BledIstanbul
Score043
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km32
Coast distance76 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 51 points.51
BledIstanbul
Score1970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1320
Museums & heritage. Istanbul leads by 39 points.39
BledIstanbul
Score2766
Museums within 10 km16145
Museums within 2 km of centre171
Share of museums within 2 km %649
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 77 points.77
BledIstanbul
Score279
Drinking venues within 4 km432,266
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre361,176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8452
Nightclubs within 4 km1221
Nature & day trips. Bled leads by 8 points.8
BledIstanbul
Score3325
Protected land share 50 km %201
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km9 hectares60 hectares
Good for families. Istanbul leads by 50 points.50
BledIstanbul
Score1767
Tourist attractions within 2 km768
Park area within 2 km9 hectares60 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Istanbul leads by 53 points.53
BledIstanbul
Score2275
Notable places within 2 km14285
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 17 points.17
BledIstanbul
Score7289
Price level global59.635.2
Daily budget€131€100
Year-round weather. Istanbul leads by 12 points.12
BledIstanbul
Score5769
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C9.2 °C to 29.7 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm23 mm to 101 mm
Dry months24
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
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Istanbul
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledIstanbul
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
3 h 35 m
€110-186
IST · 36 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 40 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 15 m
€54-87
SAW · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 50 m
€137-196
IST · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
3 h 15 m
€141-223
IST · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
4 h 15 m
€177-220
IST · 36 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
3 h 15 m
€161-174
IST · 36 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 15 m
€180-215
LJU · 31 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
IST · 36 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

MeasureBledIstanbul
Official languageSloveneTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m100 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledIstanbul
City population4,96915,655,924
People per km²262,930
Museums within 10 km472
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre1762
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. 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.