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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Puerto Vallarta?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Vallarta’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, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Puerto Vallarta 62: Puerto Vallarta leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Puerto Vallarta 28: Puerto Vallarta leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 61 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Puerto Vallarta 76: Bled leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Puerto Vallarta 55: Bled leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Puerto Vallarta 45: Bled leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Puerto Vallarta 42: Puerto Vallarta leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Puerto Vallarta 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Puerto Vallarta 32: Puerto Vallarta leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Puerto Vallarta 52: Bled leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
Best match
56match

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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Puerto Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
209 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BledPuerto Vallarta

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.

Puerto Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBledPuerto Vallarta
Official languageSloveneSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m101 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledPuerto Vallarta
City population4,969224,166
People per km²264,311
Museums within 10 km42
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.