VacationSelector

Bled or Izmir?

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.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BledIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
BledIzmir
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km34
Coast distance76 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 30 points.30
BledIzmir
Score1949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1312
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 16 points.16
BledIzmir
Score2743
Museums within 10 km1647
Museums within 2 km of centre127
Share of museums within 2 km %657
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 60 points.60
BledIzmir
Score262
Drinking venues within 4 km431,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8468
Nightclubs within 4 km170
Nature & day trips. Bled leads by 4 points.4
BledIzmir
Score3329
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km9 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
BledIzmir
Score1735
Tourist attractions within 2 km76
Park area within 2 km9 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
BledIzmir
Score2240
Notable places within 2 km1439
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
BledIzmir
Score7289
Price level global59.635.2
Daily budget€131€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
BledIzmir
Score5772
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months25
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 40 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 35 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBledIzmir
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 m2 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledIzmir
City population4,9694,493,242
People per km²264,760
Museums within 10 km429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre1720
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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.