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Bratislava or Paphos?

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.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BratislavaPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
BratislavaPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km3627
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bratislava leads by 13 points.13
BratislavaPaphos
Score5744
Restaurants within 2 km of centre540251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 39 points.39
BratislavaPaphos
Score6122
Museums within 10 km538
Museums within 2 km of centre353
Share of museums within 2 km %6638
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Bratislava leads by 23 points.23
BratislavaPaphos
Score5330
Drinking venues within 4 km697224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre530161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7672
Nightclubs within 4 km3411
Nature & day trips. Bratislava leads by 16 points.16
BratislavaPaphos
Score3923
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km85 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Bratislava leads by 6 points.6
BratislavaPaphos
Score4842
Tourist attractions within 2 km1630
Park area within 2 km85 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 44 points.44
BratislavaPaphos
Score6319
Notable places within 2 km14612
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 6 points.6
BratislavaPaphos
Score7670
Price level global54.361.4
Daily budget€132€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 25 points.25
BratislavaPaphos
Score6186
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bratislava
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Paphos
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€55-96
BTS · 8 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 25 m
€200-265
1 stop
BTS · 8 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
AthensATH
2 h 10 m
€150-241
VIE · 40 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 40 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 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

MeasureBratislavaPaphos
Official languageSlovakTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation152 m72 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaPaphos
City population480,90235,961
People per km²1,3081,987
Museums within 10 km224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre6136
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months

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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.