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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Krabi?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Krabi 50: Krabi leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Krabi 20: Bled leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Krabi 33: Krabi leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Krabi 85: Bled leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Krabi 40: Bled leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Krabi 55: Bled leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Krabi 30: Bled leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Krabi 20: Krabi leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Krabi 12: Krabi leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Krabi.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Krabi
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °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.

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledKrabi
Official languageSloveneThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation501 m16 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBledKrabi
City population4,96930,499
People per km²26-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.