VacationSelector

Bled or Lyon?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BledLyon
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Lyon are level on 0.
BledLyon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km326
Coast distance76 km253 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 60 points.60
BledLyon
Score1979
Restaurants within 2 km of centre431,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1340
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 28 points.28
BledLyon
Score2755
Museums within 10 km1653
Museums within 2 km of centre125
Share of museums within 2 km %647
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 56 points.56
BledLyon
Score258
Drinking venues within 4 km43866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8471
Nightclubs within 4 km147
Nature & day trips. Bled and Lyon are level on 33.
BledLyon
Score3333
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %26
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 42 points.42
BledLyon
Score1759
Tourist attractions within 2 km725
Park area within 2 km9 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 32 points.32
BledLyon
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 10 points.10
BledLyon
Score7262
Price level global59.673.7
Daily budget€131€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 7 points.7
BledLyon
Score5764
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledLyon
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
55 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 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

MeasureBledLyon
Official languageSloveneFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m160 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledLyon
City population4,969519,127
People per km²2610,838
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre17148

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.