VacationSelector

Atlanta or Dubai?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
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.

AtlantaDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
AtlantaDubai
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km052
Coast distance373 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaDubai
Score5966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2326
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 3 points.3
AtlantaDubai
Score3538
Museums within 10 km4126
Museums within 2 km of centre1618
Share of museums within 2 km %3969
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaDubai
Score4953
Drinking venues within 4 km531601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5351
Nightclubs within 4 km4684
Nature & day trips. Atlanta leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaDubai
Score3118
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km113 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 17 points.17
AtlantaDubai
Score3249
Tourist attractions within 2 km237
Park area within 2 km113 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Atlanta leads by 3 points.3
AtlantaDubai
Score4037
Notable places within 2 km3933
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 26 points.26
AtlantaDubai
Score4369
Price level global10063.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaDubai
Score6766
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaDubai
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
16 h 5 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
16 h 25 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
15 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
16 h 45 m
€1,139-1335
DXB · 7 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaDubai
Official languageArabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m0 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaDubai
City population498,7153,944,751
People per km²1,433
Museums within 10 km2714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5652
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

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.