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Bratislava or Philadelphia?

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, level with your weighting

Bratislava
51
match

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

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BratislavaPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Bratislava and Philadelphia are level on 0.
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km361
Coast distance10,000 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 20 points.20
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score5777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5401,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 1 points.1
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score6160
Museums within 10 km5389
Museums within 2 km of centre3548
Share of museums within 2 km %6654
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 6 points.6
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score5359
Drinking venues within 4 km697930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre530575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7662
Nightclubs within 4 km3441
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score3949
Protected land share 50 km %1414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km85 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score4853
Tourist attractions within 2 km1616
Park area within 2 km85 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 9 points.9
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score6354
Notable places within 2 km14688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 33 points.33
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score7643
Price level global54.3100
Daily budget€132
Year-round weather. Bratislava leads by 1 points.1
BratislavaPhiladelphia
Score6160
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm69 mm to 112 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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Bratislava
3
5
11
17
21
25
27
27
22
15
9
4
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaPhiladelphia
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 40 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AthensATH
2 h 10 m
€150-241
VIE · 40 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
DohaDOH
5 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasureBratislavaPhiladelphia
Official languageSlovak
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation152 m12 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaPhiladelphia
City population480,9021,603,797
People per km²1,3084,339
Museums within 10 km2254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6175

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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. 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.