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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower, Shanghai
ShanghaiThe Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Shanghai by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bled or Shanghai?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Shanghai for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Shanghai’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, Shanghai 10: Bled leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Shanghai 88: Shanghai leads by 68 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Shanghai 72: Shanghai leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 75 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Shanghai 25: Bled leads by 61 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Shanghai 90: Shanghai leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Shanghai 85: Shanghai leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Shanghai 82: Shanghai leads by 77 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Shanghai 55: Shanghai leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Shanghai 66: Shanghai leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled and Shanghai are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Shanghai.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Shanghai
Best match
66match

Wins on shopping 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

Shanghai in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
151 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledShanghai
Official languageSlovenePutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation501 m4 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre207 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledShanghai
City population4,96924,870,895
People per km²263,922
Museums within 10 km445
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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. 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.