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Bratislava Castle, Bratislava
BratislavaBratislava Castle
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Bratislava by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Bratislava or Hiroshima?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bratislava for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Bratislava’s own page.

Choose Hiroshima for

  • food and drink
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bratislava 15, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Bratislava 42, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bratislava 45, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Bratislava 40, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bratislava 55, Hiroshima 62: Hiroshima leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Bratislava 78, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Bratislava 40, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Bratislava 68, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Bratislava 35, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Bratislava 62, Hiroshima 58: Bratislava leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bratislava 48, Hiroshima 38: Bratislava leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bratislava 36, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bratislava and Hiroshima.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bratislava
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on food and drink and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bratislava in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bratislava has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Bratislava's sunshine is measured 56 km from the centre, at Wien / Hohe Warte.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBratislavaHiroshima
Official languageSlovakJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation152 m3 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaHiroshima
City population480,9021,198,021
People per km²1,3081,324
Museums within 10 km2218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.