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The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bled or Windhoek?

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

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Bled leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Bled 20, Windhoek 36: Windhoek leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Bled 22, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Bled 5, Windhoek 25: Windhoek leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bled 86, Windhoek 52: Bled leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Bled 70, Windhoek 14: Bled leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Bled 60, Windhoek 30: Bled leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Bled 58, Windhoek 22: Bled leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Bled 5, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bled 45, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bled 5, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bled 55, Windhoek 30: Bled leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bled and Windhoek.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bled
Best match
40match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

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
15 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
11 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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBledWindhoek
Official languageSloveneEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m1,650 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledWindhoek
City population4,969486,169
People per km²2695
Museums within 10 km45
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.