VacationSelector

Bologna 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, 1 point apart

Bologna
52
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BolognaBratislava
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Bratislava are level on 0.
BolognaBratislava
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km236
Coast distance74 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 1 points.1
BolognaBratislava
Score5857
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822540
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2026
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaBratislava
Score6761
Museums within 10 km5853
Museums within 2 km of centre4335
Share of museums within 2 km %7466
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bologna and Bratislava are level on 53.
BolognaBratislava
Score5353
Drinking venues within 4 km720697
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531530
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7476
Nightclubs within 4 km3034
Nature & day trips. Bologna and Bratislava are level on 39.
BolognaBratislava
Score3939
Protected land share 50 km %714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaBratislava
Score5548
Tourist attractions within 2 km3216
Park area within 2 km119 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 3 points.3
BolognaBratislava
Score6063
Notable places within 2 km120146
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 8 points.8
BolognaBratislava
Score6876
Price level global64.954.3
Daily budget€155€132
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaBratislava
Score6761
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C2.9 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months51
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Bratislava
3
5
11
17
21
25
27
27
22
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaBratislava
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 5 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
€170-245
2 stops
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 5 m
€101-136
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
MaleMLE
9 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
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

MeasureBolognaBratislava
Official languageItalianSlovak
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m152 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaBratislava
City population387,971480,902
People per km²2,7541,308
Museums within 10 km6622
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6261

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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.