VacationSelector

Bled or Siena?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bled
28
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Siena
✓ Best match
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Bled if the trip is mainly about the outdoors: a fifth of the surrounding land is protected, there are 3 beaches on the lake, and a theme park within reach if you have children.

Choose Siena if you would rather walk a compact historic centre, with far more museums standing close together, many more notable buildings within walking distance, and a wider choice of places to eat and drink.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BledSiena
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Siena are level on 0.
BledSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance76 km64 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Siena leads by 13 points.13
BledSiena
Score1932
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1311
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 44 points.44
BledSiena
Score2771
Museums within 10 km1655
Museums within 2 km of centre151
Share of museums within 2 km %693
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Siena leads by 15 points.15
BledSiena
Score217
Drinking venues within 4 km43142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8484
Nightclubs within 4 km11
Nature & day trips. Bled leads by 14 points.14
BledSiena
Score3319
Protected land share 50 km %203
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Siena leads by 14 points.14
BledSiena
Score1731
Tourist attractions within 2 km713
Park area within 2 km9 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 28 points.28
BledSiena
Score2250
Notable places within 2 km1469
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 4 points.4
BledSiena
Score7268
Price level global59.664.9
Daily budget€131€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 7 points.7
BledSiena
Score5764
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months20
0255075100

Where they differ

Bled's advantage is what surrounds it. Around 20% of the land nearby is protected against 3% around Siena, it has 3 beaches on the lake where Siena has none, and 1 theme park within reach.

Siena is the stronger town-centre visit: roughly three times as many museums, sitting tightly around the middle, and 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Bled's 3. Many more notable buildings stand within walking distance, and there are considerably more places to eat and to drink near the centre.

Where they are alike

Neither is a swimming destination. Bled has 3 beaches on its lake and Siena has none, and neither has a month with sea at 21°C or more, so a swim is incidental rather than a reason to book.

Both also sit in countries with mid-range estimated daily budgets, €131 and €155, and both follow the same seasonal shape: warm summers, cool and damp winters, with the year's highest temperatures arriving in July in each case.

Which traveller are you?

Someone travelling for museums and old buildings should take Siena: roughly three times as many museums, clustered close together, and 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, so days need little planning and little transport between them.

Walkers and day-trippers are better served by Bled, where 20% of the surrounding land is protected against 3% around Siena, and the beaches on the lake give an easy swim at the end of a hike.

Families can go either way. Siena has about twice as many attractions near the centre and more park space close in; Bled has the lake beaches and a theme park within reach, which Siena lacks.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €131 and €155, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of either city. A small lake resort and a walled town can each sit well away from their national average, by more than the gap between the two, so this says nothing about which trip costs more.

The weather comparison is incomplete: no station near Siena records sunshine hours, so that figure is missing rather than low, and its monthly picture rests on temperature and rainfall alone. Bled's warmest months are also its wettest, so a strong summer rating there does not promise dry days.

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bled is at its best from June to September, with midsummer highs of 25-27°C. Those same months are also its wettest, 108-139mm, so showers will shape some afternoons and plans around the lake need slack in them.

Siena suits May and June, with highs of 23-28°C, and again September, warm but wet at 103mm. Midsummer is its driest stretch at 49-53mm, though highs reach 31°C, which is hot work in a stone-built centre with little shade.

Getting there

Flying fromBledSiena
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 135 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBledSiena
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 m322 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledSiena
City population4,96952,812
People per km²26446
Museums within 10 km429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre1725

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.