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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Luang Prabang?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Luang Prabang for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Luang Prabang’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, Luang Prabang 14: Bled leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Luang Prabang 42: Luang Prabang leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Luang Prabang 65: Luang Prabang leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Luang Prabang 8: Luang Prabang leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Luang Prabang 68: Bled leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Luang Prabang 35: Bled leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Luang Prabang 38: Bled leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Luang Prabang 50: Bled leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Luang Prabang 38: Luang Prabang leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Luang Prabang 80: Luang Prabang leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Luang Prabang 18: Luang Prabang leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Luang Prabang 60: Luang Prabang leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Luang Prabang.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Luang Prabang
Best match
43match

Wins on culture and sights 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
15 hdaylight a day

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BledLuang Prabang

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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledLuang Prabang
Official languageSloveneLao
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lao Kip (LAK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 195, fire 190
Elevation501 m305 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBledLuang Prabang
City population4,96953,792
People per km²26-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.