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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bled or Phnom Penh?

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 Phnom Penh for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Bled leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Phnom Penh 28: Bled leads by 58 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Phnom Penh 34: Bled leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Phnom Penh 32: Bled leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Phnom Penh 35: Bled leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Phnom Penh 32: Phnom Penh leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Phnom Penh 50: Bled leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Phnom Penh.

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.

Phnom Penh
Best match
44match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink 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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BledPhnom Penh

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledPhnom Penh
Official languageSloveneKhmer
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation501 m11 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledPhnom Penh
City population4,9692,129,371
People per km²263,138
Museums within 10 km43
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.