VacationSelector

Bratislava or Gdansk?

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 nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

BratislavaGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
BratislavaGdansk
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3620
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bratislava leads by 5 points.5
BratislavaGdansk
Score5752
Restaurants within 2 km of centre540348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2628
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 4 points.4
BratislavaGdansk
Score6157
Museums within 10 km5343
Museums within 2 km of centre3528
Share of museums within 2 km %6665
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Bratislava leads by 17 points.17
BratislavaGdansk
Score5336
Drinking venues within 4 km697269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre530203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7675
Nightclubs within 4 km3430
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 6 points.6
BratislavaGdansk
Score3945
Protected land share 50 km %1412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %103
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km85 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 27 points.27
BratislavaGdansk
Score4875
Tourist attractions within 2 km16108
Park area within 2 km85 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 11 points.11
BratislavaGdansk
Score6352
Notable places within 2 km14676
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 3 points.3
BratislavaGdansk
Score7679
Price level global54.349
Daily budget€132€133
Year-round weather. Bratislava leads by 9 points.9
BratislavaGdansk
Score6152
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months13
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bratislava
No coastline within reach
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaGdansk
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 40 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€55-96
BTS · 8 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 35 m
€179-225
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 10 m
€111-165
VIE · 40 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 55 m
no fares
BTS · 8 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 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

MeasureBratislavaGdansk
Official languageSlovakPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation152 m11 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaGdansk
City population480,902487,834
People per km²1,308714
Museums within 10 km2237
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre6148
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.