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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Rome?

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
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Rome for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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 and Rome are level on 50.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Rome 82: Rome leads by 62 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Rome 99: Rome leads by 77 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Rome 58: Rome leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Rome 58: Bled leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Rome 92: Rome leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Rome 50: Bled leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Rome 60: Rome leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Rome 72: Rome leads by 67 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Rome 38: Bled leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Rome 68: Rome leads by 63 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Rome 40: Bled leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Rome.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledRome
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 m21 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledRome
City population4,9692,748,109
People per km²262,135
Museums within 10 km4178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km37
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.