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Ljubljana or Malaga?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

LjubljanaMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
LjubljanaMalaga
Score066
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1021
Coast distance72 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 14 points.14
LjubljanaMalaga
Score5569
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2921,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4034
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 2 points.2
LjubljanaMalaga
Score5553
Museums within 10 km2640
Museums within 2 km of centre2335
Share of museums within 2 km %8888
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
LjubljanaMalaga
Score4554
Drinking venues within 4 km458715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6268
Nightclubs within 4 km2445
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaMalaga
Score4043
Protected land share 50 km %137
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10063
Park area within 2 km75 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 15 points.15
LjubljanaMalaga
Score3853
Tourist attractions within 2 km1233
Park area within 2 km75 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 21 points.21
LjubljanaMalaga
Score5837
Notable places within 2 km10933
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 1 points.1
LjubljanaMalaga
Score7271
Price level global59.660.8
Daily budget€131€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 26 points.26
LjubljanaMalaga
Score5682
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months05
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 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

MeasureLjubljanaMalaga
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 m18 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaMalaga
City population284,293599,063
People per km²1,7361,517
Museums within 10 km1432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6365
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.