VacationSelector

Bratislava or Cork?

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

Your match

Bratislava
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Cork
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BratislavaCork
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
BratislavaCork
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km361
Coast distance10,000 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Bratislava leads by 7 points.7
BratislavaCork
Score5750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre540224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 38 points.38
BratislavaCork
Score6123
Museums within 10 km5310
Museums within 2 km of centre358
Share of museums within 2 km %6680
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bratislava leads by 15 points.15
BratislavaCork
Score5338
Drinking venues within 4 km697361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre530292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7681
Nightclubs within 4 km349
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 13 points.13
BratislavaCork
Score3952
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %10074
Park area within 2 km85 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Bratislava leads by 21 points.21
BratislavaCork
Score4827
Tourist attractions within 2 km167
Park area within 2 km85 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 41 points.41
BratislavaCork
Score6322
Notable places within 2 km14614
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 19 points.19
BratislavaCork
Score7657
Price level global54.380.2
Daily budget€132€187
Year-round weather. Bratislava leads by 12 points.12
BratislavaCork
Score6149
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm78 mm to 140 mm
Dry months10
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
Bratislava
3
5
11
17
21
25
27
27
22
15
9
4
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bratislava
No coastline within reach
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€55-96
BTS · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 25 m
€200-265
1 stop
BTS · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€123-211
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FaroFAO
3 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BTS · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 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

MeasureBratislavaCork
Official languageSlovakEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation152 m0 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaCork
City population480,902222,333
People per km²1,3085,961
Museums within 10 km225
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6149
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. 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.