VacationSelector

Bled or Madrid?

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.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
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.

BledMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Madrid are level on 0.
BledMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km34
Coast distance76 km305 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 64 points.64
BledMadrid
Score1983
Restaurants within 2 km of centre433,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1328
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 48 points.48
BledMadrid
Score2775
Museums within 10 km1697
Museums within 2 km of centre159
Share of museums within 2 km %661
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 79 points.79
BledMadrid
Score281
Drinking venues within 4 km432,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre361,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8462
Nightclubs within 4 km1341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 30 points.30
BledMadrid
Score3363
Protected land share 50 km %2019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 60 points.60
BledMadrid
Score1777
Tourist attractions within 2 km761
Park area within 2 km9 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 53 points.53
BledMadrid
Score2275
Notable places within 2 km14288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 1 points.1
BledMadrid
Score7271
Price level global59.660.8
Daily budget€131€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 15 points.15
BledMadrid
Score5772
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months27
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledMadrid
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 5 m
€191-243
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBledMadrid
Official languageSloveneSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m663 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledMadrid
City population4,9693,506,730
People per km²265,801
Museums within 10 km488
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre17106

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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.