VacationSelector

Bruges or Ljubljana?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Ljubljana
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BrugesLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesLjubljana
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance14 km72 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 2 points.2
BrugesLjubljana
Score5755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3240
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 2 points.2
BrugesLjubljana
Score5755
Museums within 10 km3026
Museums within 2 km of centre2423
Share of museums within 2 km %8088
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 11 points.11
BrugesLjubljana
Score3445
Drinking venues within 4 km292458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8062
Nightclubs within 4 km824
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 14 points.14
BrugesLjubljana
Score2640
Protected land share 50 km %213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 22 points.22
BrugesLjubljana
Score6038
Tourist attractions within 2 km5212
Park area within 2 km59 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 18 points.18
BrugesLjubljana
Score4058
Notable places within 2 km40109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 12 points.12
BrugesLjubljana
Score6072
Price level global76.259.6
Daily budget€180€131
Year-round weather. Bruges and Ljubljana are level on 56.
BrugesLjubljana
Score5656
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm67 mm to 159 mm
Dry months10
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBrugesLjubljana
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
DubrovnikDBV
2 h 25 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 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

MeasureBrugesLjubljana
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSlovene
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m309 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesLjubljana
City population118,509284,293
People per km²8401,736
Museums within 10 km3814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre5163
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.