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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bled or Sapporo?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Bled leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 60 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Sapporo 40: Sapporo leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled and Sapporo are level on 86.
Day trips. Bled 70, Sapporo 64: Bled leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 53 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Sapporo 44: Sapporo leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Sapporo.

Your match

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

Bled
40match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledSapporo
Official languageSloveneJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation501 m5 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledSapporo
City population4,9691,959,313
People per km²261,747
Museums within 10 km433
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. 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.