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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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. Arequipa 8, Dubrovnik 74: Dubrovnik leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Dubrovnik 47: Arequipa leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Dubrovnik 37: Dubrovnik leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Dubrovnik 70: Arequipa leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Dubrovnik 66: Dubrovnik leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Dubrovnik 50: Dubrovnik leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Dubrovnik 60: Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Dubrovnik 25: Arequipa leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Dubrovnik 28: Arequipa leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Dubrovnik 25: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Dubrovnik 32: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Dubrovnik.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaDubrovnik
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaCroatian
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m10 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaDubrovnik
City population1,008,29041,562
People per km²1,551-
Museums within 10 km37
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.