VacationSelector

Bratislava or Dublin?

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

Your match

Bratislava
51
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BratislavaDublin
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
BratislavaDublin
Score049
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3611
Coast distance10,000 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 13 points.13
BratislavaDublin
Score5770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre540920
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2637
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 6 points.6
BratislavaDublin
Score6155
Museums within 10 km5347
Museums within 2 km of centre3537
Share of museums within 2 km %6679
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
BratislavaDublin
Score5364
Drinking venues within 4 km6971,239
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre530934
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7675
Nightclubs within 4 km3440
Nature & day trips. Bratislava leads by 13 points.13
BratislavaDublin
Score3926
Protected land share 50 km %143
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km85 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
BratislavaDublin
Score4854
Tourist attractions within 2 km1641
Park area within 2 km85 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 1 points.1
BratislavaDublin
Score6362
Notable places within 2 km146141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 19 points.19
BratislavaDublin
Score7657
Price level global54.380.2
Daily budget€132€187
Year-round weather. Bratislava leads by 7 points.7
BratislavaDublin
Score6154
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C8.2 °C to 19.5 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bratislava
No coastline within reach
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Dublin
2
3
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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaDublin
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€55-96
BTS · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€188-230
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 40 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
CancunCUN
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureBratislavaDublin
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 m20 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaDublin
City population480,902592,713
People per km²1,3085,154
Museums within 10 km2240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6174
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.