VacationSelector

Athens or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

AthensDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 29 points.29
AthensDubrovnik
Score4877
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km1443
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensDubrovnik
Score6938
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2518
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 24 points.24
AthensDubrovnik
Score7349
Museums within 10 km12218
Museums within 2 km of centre7817
Share of museums within 2 km %6494
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Athens leads by 61 points.61
AthensDubrovnik
Score8120
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5086
Nightclubs within 4 km13613
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 40 points.40
AthensDubrovnik
Score455
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %5051
Park area within 2 km128 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 50 points.50
AthensDubrovnik
Score7121
Tourist attractions within 2 km6812
Park area within 2 km128 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensDubrovnik
Score7544
Notable places within 2 km29148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
AthensDubrovnik
Score7480
Price level global55.848.5
Daily budget€125€138
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensDubrovnik
Score7465
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 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 fromAthensDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 55 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 10 m
€83-197
ATH · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 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

MeasureAthensDubrovnik
Official languageGreekCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m10 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensDubrovnik
City population643,45241,562
People per km²16,499
Museums within 10 km887
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre8232
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.