VacationSelector

Bratislava or Rotterdam?

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 value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BratislavaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
BratislavaRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3622
Coast distance10,000 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
BratislavaRotterdam
Score5772
Restaurants within 2 km of centre540862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2646
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 1 points.1
BratislavaRotterdam
Score6160
Museums within 10 km5341
Museums within 2 km of centre3520
Share of museums within 2 km %6649
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Bratislava leads by 4 points.4
BratislavaRotterdam
Score5349
Drinking venues within 4 km697542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre530378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7670
Nightclubs within 4 km3440
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 3 points.3
BratislavaRotterdam
Score3942
Protected land share 50 km %1410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km85 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 14 points.14
BratislavaRotterdam
Score4862
Tourist attractions within 2 km1627
Park area within 2 km85 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 12 points.12
BratislavaRotterdam
Score6351
Notable places within 2 km14674
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 18 points.18
BratislavaRotterdam
Score7658
Price level global54.379.2
Daily budget€132€181
Year-round weather. Bratislava leads by 5 points.5
BratislavaRotterdam
Score6156
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bratislava
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 40 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
no fares
BTS · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 25 m
€200-265
1 stop
BTS · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€198-297
RTM · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureBratislavaRotterdam
Official languageSlovakDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation152 m10 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaRotterdam
City population480,902664,311
People per km²1,3082,080
Museums within 10 km2240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre6177
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. 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.