VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Washington DC?

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.

Washington DC
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming 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.

LjubljanaWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Washington DC leads by 18 points.18
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score018
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance72 km34 km
Water distance34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 22 points.22
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score5577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2921,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4036
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana and Washington DC are level on 55.
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score5555
Museums within 10 km2683
Museums within 2 km of centre2355
Share of museums within 2 km %8866
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 16 points.16
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score4561
Drinking venues within 4 km4581,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6258
Nightclubs within 4 km2454
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 2 points.2
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score4042
Protected land share 50 km %1310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %51
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km75 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Ljubljana and Washington DC are level on 38.
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score3838
Tourist attractions within 2 km127
Park area within 2 km75 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 18 points.18
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score5876
Notable places within 2 km109305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 29 points.29
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score7243
Price level global59.6100
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Washington DC leads by 6 points.6
LjubljanaWashington DC
Score5662
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 mm65 mm to 108 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
Washington DC
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaWashington DC
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 20 m
€158-333
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DohaDOH
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureLjubljanaWashington DC
Official languageSlovene
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation309 m72 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaWashington DC
City population284,293689,545
People per km²1,7363,896
Museums within 10 km1499
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6382
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. 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.