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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • culture and sights

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. Antibes 80, Dubrovnik 74: Antibes leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Dubrovnik 47: Antibes leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Dubrovnik 37: Antibes leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes and Dubrovnik are level on 70.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Dubrovnik 66: Antibes leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Dubrovnik 50: Antibes leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Dubrovnik 60: Antibes leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Dubrovnik 25: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Dubrovnik 28: Antibes leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Dubrovnik 25: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Dubrovnik 32: Antibes leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Dubrovnik.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and shopping with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on 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.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesDubrovnik
Official languageFrenchCroatian
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
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesDubrovnik
City population77,63741,562
People per km²2,930-
Museums within 10 km147
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.