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Bratislava or Lyon?

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

Bratislava
51
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Lyon
52
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

BratislavaLyon
Beaches & swimming. Bratislava and Lyon are level on 0.
BratislavaLyon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3626
Coast distance10,000 km253 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 22 points.22
BratislavaLyon
Score5779
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5401,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2640
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 6 points.6
BratislavaLyon
Score6155
Museums within 10 km5353
Museums within 2 km of centre3525
Share of museums within 2 km %6647
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
BratislavaLyon
Score5358
Drinking venues within 4 km697866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre530611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7671
Nightclubs within 4 km3447
Nature & day trips. Bratislava leads by 6 points.6
BratislavaLyon
Score3933
Protected land share 50 km %146
Landscape blanket share 50 km %106
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km85 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 11 points.11
BratislavaLyon
Score4859
Tourist attractions within 2 km1625
Park area within 2 km85 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 9 points.9
BratislavaLyon
Score6354
Notable places within 2 km14686
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 14 points.14
BratislavaLyon
Score7662
Price level global54.373.7
Daily budget€132€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 3 points.3
BratislavaLyon
Score6164
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaLyon
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€55-96
BTS · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
55 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
1 h 40 m
€138-215
1 stop
GVA · 111 km
TunisTUN
2 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureBratislavaLyon
Official languageSlovakFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation152 m160 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaLyon
City population480,902519,127
People per km²1,30810,838
Museums within 10 km2242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre61148

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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.