VacationSelector

Bled or Manchester?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
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.

BledManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
BledManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km310
Coast distance76 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 49 points.49
BledManchester
Score1968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1335
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 15 points.15
BledManchester
Score2742
Museums within 10 km1623
Museums within 2 km of centre111
Share of museums within 2 km %648
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 60 points.60
BledManchester
Score262
Drinking venues within 4 km431,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8477
Nightclubs within 4 km182
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 3 points.3
BledManchester
Score3336
Protected land share 50 km %2017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %217
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km9 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 15 points.15
BledManchester
Score1732
Tourist attractions within 2 km75
Park area within 2 km9 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 26 points.26
BledManchester
Score2248
Notable places within 2 km1461
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 18 points.18
BledManchester
Score7254
Price level global59.684.9
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Bled leads by 3 points.3
BledManchester
Score5754
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledManchester
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureBledManchester
Official languageSloveneEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation501 m38 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledManchester
City population4,969547,627
People per km²264,737
Museums within 10 km428
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre1763
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.