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Ljubljana or London?

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

Your match

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

LjubljanaLondon
Beaches & swimming. Ljubljana and London are level on 0.
LjubljanaLondon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1047
Coast distance72 km43 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. London leads by 33 points.33
LjubljanaLondon
Score5588
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2923,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4040
Museums & heritage. London leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaLondon
Score5572
Museums within 10 km26148
Museums within 2 km of centre2349
Share of museums within 2 km %8833
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. London leads by 50 points.50
LjubljanaLondon
Score4595
Drinking venues within 4 km4585,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2842,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6246
Nightclubs within 4 km24312
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana and London are level on 40.
LjubljanaLondon
Score4040
Protected land share 50 km %1316
Landscape blanket share 50 km %514
Land share of disc %10097
Park area within 2 km75 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 37 points.37
LjubljanaLondon
Score3875
Tourist attractions within 2 km1285
Park area within 2 km75 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. London leads by 31 points.31
LjubljanaLondon
Score5889
Notable places within 2 km109649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 18 points.18
LjubljanaLondon
Score7254
Price level global59.684.9
Daily budget€131—
Year-round weather. London leads by 7 points.7
LjubljanaLondon
Score5663
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months01
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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaLondon
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
SplitSPU
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
DubrovnikDBV
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 30 m
€170-347
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
DohaDOH
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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

MeasureLjubljanaLondon
Official languageSloveneEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation309 m4 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaLondon
City population284,2938,799,728
People per km²1,7365,598
Museums within 10 km14215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre63116

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