VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Bratislava?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Bratislava
51
match

Wins on value for money 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.

AmsterdamBratislava
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamBratislava
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3336
Coast distance24 km10,000 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 26 points.26
AmsterdamBratislava
Score8357
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957540
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4426
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 19 points.19
AmsterdamBratislava
Score8061
Museums within 10 km9853
Museums within 2 km of centre6935
Share of museums within 2 km %7066
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 17 points.17
AmsterdamBratislava
Score7053
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543697
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078530
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7076
Nightclubs within 4 km11434
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 21 points.21
AmsterdamBratislava
Score6039
Protected land share 50 km %2114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 20 points.20
AmsterdamBratislava
Score6848
Tourist attractions within 2 km7416
Park area within 2 km49 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 5 points.5
AmsterdamBratislava
Score6863
Notable places within 2 km196146
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 18 points.18
AmsterdamBratislava
Score5876
Price level global79.254.3
Daily budget€181€132
Year-round weather. Bratislava leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamBratislava
Score5761
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C2.9 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm38 mm to 80 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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Bratislava
3
5
11
17
21
25
27
27
22
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Bratislava
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamBratislava
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€55-96
BTS · 8 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
BerlinBER
1 h 20 m
€150-227
AMS · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 40 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

MeasureAmsterdamBratislava
Official languageDutchSlovak
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m152 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamBratislava
City population921,468480,902
People per km²4,2081,308
Museums within 10 km10122
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre9861
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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