VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Ljubljana?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Heidelberg
45
match

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

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

HeidelbergLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and Ljubljana are level on 0.
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance406 km72 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ljubljana leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score4755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2640
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 4 points.4
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score5955
Museums within 10 km5426
Museums within 2 km of centre2323
Share of museums within 2 km %4388
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 18 points.18
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score2745
Drinking venues within 4 km201458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8462
Nightclubs within 4 km824
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 34 points.34
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score7440
Protected land share 50 km %5213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %225
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 5 points.5
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score4338
Tourist attractions within 2 km2912
Park area within 2 km20 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 22 points.22
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score3658
Notable places within 2 km31109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 12 points.12
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score6072
Price level global75.959.6
Daily budget€163€131
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 5 points.5
HeidelbergLjubljana
Score6156
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergLjubljana
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 50 m
€121-146
FRA · 69 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
DubrovnikDBV
2 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 69 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
SplitSPU
1 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 69 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 2026-08 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

MeasureHeidelbergLjubljana
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
Elevation114 m309 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergLjubljana
City population162,960284,293
People per km²1,4961,736
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre4563

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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.