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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Palm Beach?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Palm Beach 47: Palm Beach leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Palm Beach 58: Bled leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Palm Beach 55: Bled leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Palm Beach 32: Bled leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 61 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Palm Beach 12: Bled leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled and Palm Beach are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on shopping 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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledPalm Beach
Official languageSlovene-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m2 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledPalm Beach
City population4,9699,245
People per km²26322
Museums within 10 km44
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.