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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bled or Ottawa?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Ottawa for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Ottawa’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, Ottawa 35: Bled leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Ottawa 45: Ottawa leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Ottawa 62: Ottawa leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Ottawa 35: Ottawa leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Ottawa 68: Bled leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Ottawa 55: Bled leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Ottawa 68: Ottawa leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Ottawa 62: Ottawa leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Ottawa 40: Ottawa leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Ottawa 40: Bled leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Ottawa 52: Ottawa leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled and Ottawa are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Ottawa.

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.

Ottawa
Best match
51match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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
15 hdaylight a day

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledOttawa
Official languageSloveneFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m70 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledOttawa
City population4,9691,017,449
People per km²26366
Museums within 10 km420
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.