VacationSelector

Bled or Verona?

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.

Verona
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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 you want the quieter trip: a town of roughly 5,000 people, protected countryside around it, and evenings that end early.

Choose Verona if you want a city that works all day: far more restaurants, bars and museums near the centre, considerably more to do with children, and a milder winter, with January highs near 7°C rather than Bled's 1°C.

Scoreboard

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

BledVerona
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Verona are level on 0.
BledVerona
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km32
Coast distance76 km104 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Verona leads by 24 points.24
BledVerona
Score1943
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1313
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 29 points.29
BledVerona
Score2756
Museums within 10 km1620
Museums within 2 km of centre119
Share of museums within 2 km %695
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Verona leads by 38 points.38
BledVerona
Score240
Drinking venues within 4 km43416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8465
Nightclubs within 4 km19
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 3 points.3
BledVerona
Score3336
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 52 points.52
BledVerona
Score1769
Tourist attractions within 2 km762
Park area within 2 km9 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Verona leads by 31 points.31
BledVerona
Score2253
Notable places within 2 km1482
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 4 points.4
BledVerona
Score7268
Price level global59.664.9
Daily budget€131€155
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 8 points.8
BledVerona
Score5765
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months21
0255075100

Where they differ

Bled's advantage is what surrounds it: 20% of the land around the town is protected against 9% around Verona, and it has 3 beaches nearby to Verona's 2. Evenings are near-silent, with far fewer places to drink.

Verona packs many times as many notable places into walking distance of its centre, and many times as many restaurants and bars. For families the gap is widest: 4 theme parks within reach against Bled's 1, many more attractions near the centre, and far more park space.

Where they are alike

Neither is a place to swim. Bled has 3 beaches nearby and Verona 2, but neither sees a month with sea at 21°C or more, so water is incidental to either trip.

Both are middling for days out rather than remarkable, Bled leaning on protected countryside and Verona on parks and reachable sights. The national daily budget estimates behind them, €131 and €155, are not far apart either, and both get comparable summer warmth.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Verona. It has 4 theme parks within reach against Bled's 1, many times as many attractions near the centre and much more park space, most of it reachable from one base.

There for museums and evenings out: Verona again. More museums, grouped tightly around the centre, 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Bled's 3, and many times as many bars, clubs and restaurants.

Walking and quiet: Bled. 20% of the land around it is protected against 9% around Verona, the beaches are close by, and there is almost nothing open late to keep you out.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €131 and €155, are national price levels, not measurements of either city. A town of about 5,000 people and a city of 256,000 can each sit well away from their country's average, in either direction, and by more than the gap between the two national figures. Read them as country context, not as evidence that one city costs more than the other.

Bled's warmest months are also its rainiest by a wide margin, so the season that looks most inviting is the one carrying the most rain of its year; Verona spreads its rain more evenly and its driest stretch falls in late winter.

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
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bled is at its best from June to August, with highs of 25-27°C, but these are also its wettest months at 108-139mm, so summer there includes rain. September still reaches 21°C. Winter is the weak point, 1°C in December.

Verona's good spell is wider. May and June bring 24-28°C on 68-72mm, drier than Bled at the same time of year, and September holds 25°C though rain climbs to 85mm. Winter stays workable at 7-8°C.

Getting there

Flying fromBledVerona
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 10 m
€102-144
1 stop
VRN · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 25 m
€172-262
1 stop
VRN · 10 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 40 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 106 km
BariBRI
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
VRN · 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

MeasureBledVerona
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 m59 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledVerona
City population4,969255,588
People per km²261,285
Museums within 10 km418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre1735

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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.