VacationSelector

Bratislava or Tromso?

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 nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BratislavaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
BratislavaTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3614
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bratislava leads by 33 points.33
BratislavaTromso
Score5724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre54085
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Bratislava leads by 38 points.38
BratislavaTromso
Score6123
Museums within 10 km5310
Museums within 2 km of centre358
Share of museums within 2 km %6680
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bratislava leads by 46 points.46
BratislavaTromso
Score537
Drinking venues within 4 km69767
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre53061
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7691
Nightclubs within 4 km345
Nature & day trips. Bratislava leads by 28 points.28
BratislavaTromso
Score3911
Protected land share 50 km %149
Landscape blanket share 50 km %109
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km85 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Bratislava leads by 34 points.34
BratislavaTromso
Score4814
Tourist attractions within 2 km169
Park area within 2 km85 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bratislava leads by 35 points.35
BratislavaTromso
Score6328
Notable places within 2 km14620
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bratislava leads by 22 points.22
BratislavaTromso
Score7654
Price level global54.385.1
Daily budget€132€203
Year-round weather. Bratislava leads by 28 points.28
BratislavaTromso
Score6133
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 27.4 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm56 mm to 128 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Bratislava
3
5
11
17
21
25
27
27
22
15
9
4
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Bratislava
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Bratislava
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Bratislava
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Bratislava
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBratislavaTromso
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 40 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 40 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 40 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€55-96
BTS · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 40 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 30 m
no fares
BTS · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 10 m
€111-165
VIE · 40 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 40 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBratislavaTromso
Official languageSlovakNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation152 m20 m
Main airportM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBratislavaTromso
City population480,90279,943
People per km²1,30832
Museums within 10 km228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6123
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. 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.