VacationSelector

Cologne or Ljubljana?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

CologneLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Ljubljana are level on 0.
CologneLjubljana
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4010
Coast distance256 km72 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 17 points.17
CologneLjubljana
Score7255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3540
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 5 points.5
CologneLjubljana
Score6055
Museums within 10 km4726
Museums within 2 km of centre2723
Share of museums within 2 km %5788
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 19 points.19
CologneLjubljana
Score6445
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6662
Nightclubs within 4 km9024
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 31 points.31
CologneLjubljana
Score7140
Protected land share 50 km %5313
Landscape blanket share 50 km %525
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 34 points.34
CologneLjubljana
Score7238
Tourist attractions within 2 km4312
Park area within 2 km118 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 5 points.5
CologneLjubljana
Score5358
Notable places within 2 km81109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 12 points.12
CologneLjubljana
Score6072
Price level global75.959.6
Daily budget€163€131
Year-round weather. Cologne leads by 4 points.4
CologneLjubljana
Score6056
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm67 mm to 159 mm
Dry months00
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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneLjubljana
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GRZ · 127 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
DubrovnikDBV
2 h 15 m
no fares
NRN · 93 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
SplitSPU
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 20 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

MeasureCologneLjubljana
Official languageGermanSlovene
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
Elevation59 m309 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneLjubljana
City population1,024,621284,293
People per km²2,5301,736
Museums within 10 km4014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre8463

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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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.