VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Dubrovnik?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

AmsterdamDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score4077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km3343
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 45 points.45
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score8338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4418
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 31 points.31
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score8049
Museums within 10 km9818
Museums within 2 km of centre6917
Share of museums within 2 km %7094
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 50 points.50
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score7020
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7086
Nightclubs within 4 km11413
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 55 points.55
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score605
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %8251
Park area within 2 km49 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 47 points.47
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score6821
Tourist attractions within 2 km7412
Park area within 2 km49 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 24 points.24
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score6844
Notable places within 2 km19648
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.22
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score5880
Price level global79.248.5
Daily budget€181€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 8 points.8
AmsterdamDubrovnik
Score5765
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months00
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
ZagrebZAG
2 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€209-257
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 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

MeasureAmsterdamDubrovnik
Official languageDutchCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m10 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamDubrovnik
City population921,46841,562
People per km²4,208
Museums within 10 km1017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre9832
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.