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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Portland?

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

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Portland for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Portland’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, Portland 20: Bled leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Portland 68: Portland leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Portland 38: Portland leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Portland 52: Portland leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Portland 84: Bled leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Portland 58: Bled leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Portland 55: Bled leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Portland 62: Portland leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Portland 52: Portland leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Portland 38: Bled leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Portland 55: Portland leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Portland 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 Portland.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Portland
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 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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BledPortland

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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledPortland
Official languageSlovene-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m152 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledPortland
City population4,969652,503
People per km²261,736
Museums within 10 km417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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.