VacationSelector

Bled or Kyoto?

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 and value for money with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BledKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
BledKyoto
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance76 km47 km
Water distance—47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 65 points.65
BledKyoto
Score1984
Restaurants within 2 km of centre435,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1322
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 45 points.45
BledKyoto
Score2772
Museums within 10 km16132
Museums within 2 km of centre151
Share of museums within 2 km %639
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 78 points.78
BledKyoto
Score280
Drinking venues within 4 km433,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre362,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8473
Nightclubs within 4 km126
Nature & day trips. Bled leads by 11 points.11
BledKyoto
Score3322
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %22
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 49 points.49
BledKyoto
Score1766
Tourist attractions within 2 km762
Park area within 2 km9 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 30 points.30
BledKyoto
Score2252
Notable places within 2 km1479
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 2 points.2
BledKyoto
Score7270
Price level global59.662.4
Daily budget€131—
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 5 points.5
BledKyoto
Score5762
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months20
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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledKyoto
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 40 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 35 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 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

MeasureBledKyoto
Official languageSloveneJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation501 m51 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledKyoto
City population4,9691,463,723
People per km²261,768
Museums within 10 km476
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre1789
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. 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.