VacationSelector

Bled or Washington DC?

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.

Washington DC
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BledWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Washington DC leads by 18 points.18
BledWashington DC
Score018
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance76 km34 km
Water distance34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 58 points.58
BledWashington DC
Score1977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre431,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1336
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 28 points.28
BledWashington DC
Score2755
Museums within 10 km1683
Museums within 2 km of centre155
Share of museums within 2 km %666
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 59 points.59
BledWashington DC
Score261
Drinking venues within 4 km431,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8458
Nightclubs within 4 km154
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 9 points.9
BledWashington DC
Score3342
Protected land share 50 km %2010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %21
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km9 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Washington DC leads by 21 points.21
BledWashington DC
Score1738
Tourist attractions within 2 km77
Park area within 2 km9 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 54 points.54
BledWashington DC
Score2276
Notable places within 2 km14305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 29 points.29
BledWashington DC
Score7243
Price level global59.6100
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Washington DC leads by 5 points.5
BledWashington DC
Score5762
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm65 mm to 108 mm
Dry months20
0255075100

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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Daytime high, °C
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Washington DC
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). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledWashington DC
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureBledWashington DC
Official languageSlovene
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation501 m72 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledWashington DC
City population4,969689,545
People per km²263,896
Museums within 10 km499
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre1782
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.