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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Penang?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Penang for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Penang’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, Penang 44: Bled leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Penang 86: Penang leads by 66 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Penang 70: Penang leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Penang 40: Penang leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Penang 55: Bled leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Penang 42: Bled leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Penang 52: Bled leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Penang 40: Bled leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Penang 42: Penang leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Penang 78: Penang leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Penang 30: Penang leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Penang 42: Bled leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Penang.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Penang
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 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). Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledPenang
Official languageSloveneMalay
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation501 m4 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBledPenang
City population4,969794,313
People per km²26-
Museums within 10 km49
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.