VacationSelector

Bled or Stuttgart?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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The verdict

Choose Bled if you want a small lake town of about 5,000 residents, sunnier summers and days built around walking rather than a city programme, and if you accept that eating and evening options are limited to what a town that size supports.

Choose Stuttgart if you want restaurants, museums and bars in quantity, more parkland and protected country for day trips, and more to keep children occupied.

Scoreboard

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

BledStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Stuttgart are level on 0.
BledStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km33
Coast distance76 km476 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 40 points.40
BledStuttgart
Score1959
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1329
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 29 points.29
BledStuttgart
Score2756
Museums within 10 km1665
Museums within 2 km of centre121
Share of museums within 2 km %632
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 47 points.47
BledStuttgart
Score249
Drinking venues within 4 km43524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8471
Nightclubs within 4 km153
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 47 points.47
BledStuttgart
Score3380
Protected land share 50 km %2051
Landscape blanket share 50 km %231
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 28 points.28
BledStuttgart
Score1745
Tourist attractions within 2 km711
Park area within 2 km9 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 22 points.22
BledStuttgart
Score2244
Notable places within 2 km1450
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 12 points.12
BledStuttgart
Score7260
Price level global59.675.9
Daily budget€131€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 6 points.6
BledStuttgart
Score5763
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months23
0255075100

Where they differ

Bled's edge is not in eating out or evenings. It gets more sunshine over the year, peaks warmer in July at 27°C, and sits in a country whose national daily estimate is €131 against Germany's €163.

Stuttgart has many times as many restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens, many times as many bars and clubs, and about three times as many notable places within walking distance. Protected land covers 51% of its surroundings against 20% at Bled, with far more park space close in.

Where they are alike

Neither is a swimming destination. Both have 3 beaches within reach, but neither gets a month of water at 21°C or more, so swimming is a warm-day extra rather than a reason to go.

Their years also run alike: highs of 1-27°C at Bled and 6-26°C at Stuttgart, summers peaking at much the same level, and a similar count of drier months. The national daily estimates for the two countries sit close as well.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone travelling for food and evenings should go to Stuttgart: many times as many restaurants near the centre, a much wider choice of kitchens, and many times as many bars and clubs, most of them close in.

Families are better served in Stuttgart too, with about twice as many attractions near the centre, far more park space, and 2 theme parks within reach against 1 near Bled.

If you want a quiet base and time outdoors, Bled is a town of under 5,000 people with more sunshine and warmer July days at 27°C, though Stuttgart has the larger share of protected country, 51% against 20%.

What the numbers don't tell you

The €131 and €163 daily figures are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, one per country, not measurements of Bled or Stuttgart. A small lake town that draws visitors in numbers can sit well above its national average, by more than the gap between the two countries. They guide you to Slovenia and Germany, not to which trip costs more.

Bled's strongest months are also its wettest, with August the peak of both at 139mm, so warm does not mean dry. Both places have beaches nearby, but neither gets a month of water at 21°C or more, so that is not a swimming season.

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.

J
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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bled peaks from June to August at 25-27°C, but those are its wettest months, up to 139mm in August, and September still takes 114mm. May, at 21°C and 86mm, is the drier warm option; December sits at 1°C.

Stuttgart's window runs June to September and is drier throughout, ending with 49mm in September, which makes early autumn the easier bet of the two. Highs reach 26°C in July and August, and winter stays milder at 6°C.

Getting there

Flying fromBledStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 40 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 10 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBledStuttgart
Official languageSloveneGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m245 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledStuttgart
City population4,969633,484
People per km²263,054
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre1759

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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.