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Ljubljana or Madrid?

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.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

LjubljanaMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Ljubljana and Madrid are level on 0.
LjubljanaMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km104
Coast distance72 km305 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
LjubljanaMadrid
Score5583
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2923,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4028
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 20 points.20
LjubljanaMadrid
Score5575
Museums within 10 km2697
Museums within 2 km of centre2359
Share of museums within 2 km %8861
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 36 points.36
LjubljanaMadrid
Score4581
Drinking venues within 4 km4582,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2841,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6262
Nightclubs within 4 km24341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 23 points.23
LjubljanaMadrid
Score4063
Protected land share 50 km %1319
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 39 points.39
LjubljanaMadrid
Score3877
Tourist attractions within 2 km1261
Park area within 2 km75 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaMadrid
Score5875
Notable places within 2 km109288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 1 points.1
LjubljanaMadrid
Score7271
Price level global59.660.8
Daily budget€131€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 16 points.16
LjubljanaMadrid
Score5672
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months07
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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaMadrid
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
DubrovnikDBV
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
SplitSPU
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
DohaDOH
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureLjubljanaMadrid
Official languageSloveneSpanish
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
Elevation309 m663 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaMadrid
City population284,2933,506,730
People per km²1,7365,801
Museums within 10 km1488
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre63106

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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.