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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Bled or Montego Bay?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Montego Bay 28: Montego Bay leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Montego Bay 65: Bled leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Montego Bay 50: Bled leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Montego Bay 48: Bled leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Montego Bay 20: Bled leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Montego Bay 25: Montego Bay leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Montego Bay 38: Bled leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Montego Bay 45: Bled leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montego Bay
Best match
44match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledMontego Bay
Official languageSloveneEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation501 m19 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledMontego Bay
City population4,969123,994
People per km²26-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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. 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.