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The beach with the bay and the skyline behind, Acapulco
AcapulcoThe beach with the bay and the skyline behind
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Acapulco by Felicia Navarrete, Pexels License; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Acapulco or Dubrovnik?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Acapulco for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Acapulco’s own page.

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Acapulco 80, Dubrovnik 74: Acapulco leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Acapulco 55, Dubrovnik 47: Acapulco leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Acapulco 28, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Acapulco 64, Dubrovnik 37: Acapulco leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Acapulco 50, Dubrovnik 70: Dubrovnik leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Acapulco 15, Dubrovnik 66: Dubrovnik leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Acapulco 45, Dubrovnik 50: Dubrovnik leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Acapulco 30, Dubrovnik 60: Dubrovnik leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Acapulco 32, Dubrovnik 25: Acapulco leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Acapulco 74, Dubrovnik 28: Acapulco leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Acapulco 26, Dubrovnik 25: Acapulco leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Acapulco and Dubrovnik are level on 32.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Acapulco and Dubrovnik.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Acapulco
44match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Acapulco in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
226 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Dubrovnik has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Acapulco: 1991-2020 normals, Acapulco, Gro. (5.9 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAcapulcoDubrovnik
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaCroatian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation18 m10 m
Main airportGeneral Juan N. Álvarez International Airport (ACA)18 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAcapulcoDubrovnik
City population658,60941,562
People per km²350-
Museums within 10 km37
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.