VacationSelector

Interlaken or Ljubljana?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Ljubljana
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

InterlakenLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Ljubljana are level on 0.
InterlakenLjubljana
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1210
Coast distance713 km72 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ljubljana leads by 26 points.26
InterlakenLjubljana
Score2955
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1740
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 32 points.32
InterlakenLjubljana
Score2355
Museums within 10 km526
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %4088
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 41 points.41
InterlakenLjubljana
Score445
Drinking venues within 4 km42458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9062
Nightclubs within 4 km324
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 13 points.13
InterlakenLjubljana
Score2740
Protected land share 50 km %1913
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km5 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Ljubljana leads by 24 points.24
InterlakenLjubljana
Score1438
Tourist attractions within 2 km1112
Park area within 2 km5 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 36 points.36
InterlakenLjubljana
Score2258
Notable places within 2 km14109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 37 points.37
InterlakenLjubljana
Score3572
Price level global110.559.6
Daily budget€248€131
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 1 points.1
InterlakenLjubljana
Score5756
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm67 mm to 159 mm
Dry months30
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenLjubljana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
DubrovnikDBV
1 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureInterlakenLjubljana
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSlovene
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m309 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenLjubljana
City population6,123284,293
People per km²1,4241,736
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre2263

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.