VacationSelector

Antwerp or Bratislava?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Bratislava
51
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

AntwerpBratislava
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Bratislava are level on 0.
AntwerpBratislava
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km136
Coast distance21 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 18 points.18
AntwerpBratislava
Score7557
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164540
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4226
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpBratislava
Score6961
Museums within 10 km4153
Museums within 2 km of centre2735
Share of museums within 2 km %6666
Unesco sites within 50 km92
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpBratislava
Score5953
Drinking venues within 4 km866697
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657530
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7676
Nightclubs within 4 km7334
Nature & day trips. Bratislava leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpBratislava
Score3439
Protected land share 50 km %714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km53 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Bratislava leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpBratislava
Score4648
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km53 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 9 points.9
AntwerpBratislava
Score5463
Notable places within 2 km88146
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 16 points.16
AntwerpBratislava
Score6076
Price level global76.254.3
Daily budget€180€132
Year-round weather. Bratislava leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpBratislava
Score5861
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C2.9 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Bratislava
3
5
11
17
21
25
27
27
22
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
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
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpBratislava
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€115-161
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAntwerpBratislava
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSlovak
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m152 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBratislava
City population529,247480,902
People per km²2,5421,308
Museums within 10 km3822
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Distinct cuisines in the centre8061

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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.