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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Bled or New Orleans?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Bled leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 64 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 80 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, New Orleans 42: Bled leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, New Orleans 52: Bled leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, New Orleans 55: Bled leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, New Orleans 55: Bled leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, New Orleans 40: Bled leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 75 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, New Orleans 25: Bled leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledNew Orleans
Official languageSlovene-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m-2 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledNew Orleans
City population4,969383,997
People per km²26423
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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. 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.

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.