VacationSelector

Bled or Pisa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bled
28
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Bled if the outdoors is the point: a small lakeside town where a fifth of the surrounding land is protected, swimming is in fresh water, and evenings are quiet by default.

Choose Pisa if you want a town you can read on foot: more museums, more places to eat and drink within walking distance, more for children, and a summer sea reaching 24-25°C.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BledPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
BledPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance76 km10 km
Water distance—10 km
Places to eat. Pisa leads by 15 points.15
BledPisa
Score1934
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km139
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 28 points.28
BledPisa
Score2755
Museums within 10 km1627
Museums within 2 km of centre122
Share of museums within 2 km %681
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Pisa leads by 26 points.26
BledPisa
Score228
Drinking venues within 4 km43232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8488
Nightclubs within 4 km13
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
BledPisa
Score3339
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km9 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 30 points.30
BledPisa
Score1747
Tourist attractions within 2 km720
Park area within 2 km9 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
BledPisa
Score2247
Notable places within 2 km1458
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 4 points.4
BledPisa
Score7268
Price level global59.664.9
Daily budget€131€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 13 points.13
BledPisa
Score5770
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months22
0255075100

Where they differ

Bled's strengths sit outside the town. 20% of the land around it is protected against 9% around Pisa, and it has 3 beaches nearby to Pisa's 1. Its handful of restaurants covers a somewhat wider range of kitchens.

Pisa has many times as many restaurants near the centre and many times as many notable places within walking distance. Its museums are more numerous and tightly grouped. Families get more attractions and park space, and 2 theme parks within reach against 1. Bars and clubs are far more numerous too.

Where they are alike

Price sits closest of all. The daily estimates are national ones, €131 a day for Bled's country and €155 for Pisa's, similar enough that cost will not decide this one.

Both also work as bases for days out, with 3 UNESCO-listed places within reach of each. Neither is uniformly wet either: both have 2 months at 40mm or less, though they fall in different seasons.

Which traveller are you?

Walkers and swimmers who want the outdoors first: Bled. 20% of the land around it is protected, and there are 3 beaches nearby, though the water is a lake rather than sea.

A weekend of museums and eating out: Pisa. More museums, tightly grouped around the centre, many times as many restaurants and bars close by, and most notable places reachable on foot.

Families with children: Pisa again. More attractions and park space near the centre, 2 theme parks within reach against Bled's 1, and four months of sea at 21°C or more.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget is a national estimate of restaurant and hotel price levels, €131 for one country and €155 for the other, not a measurement of Bled or Pisa. A small lakeside town and a heavily visited city can each sit far from their own national average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so neither can be called the cheaper trip on this basis.

Bled's warmest weeks are also its wettest, up to 139mm, so the summer you book for can be interrupted. Pisa's sea is warmest in late summer, the same weeks when a compact centre is fullest, and there is only 1 beach nearby.

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bled is at its best from June to August, with highs of 25-27°C, but that warmth comes with the year's heaviest rain, up to 139mm. May is the drier alternative at 86mm, better for long days outdoors.

Pisa's summer is dry as well as hot: 30°C in July and August with only 32-35mm, and a sea at 24-25°C. Autumn brings the wet, 125-132mm in October and November. Winter days stay mild at 11-13°C.

Getting there

Flying fromBledPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 40 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 115 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BariBRI
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBledPisa
Official languageSloveneItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m4 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledPisa
City population4,96988,737
People per km²26479
Museums within 10 km427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre1729
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.