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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Atlanta or Dublin?

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 Atlanta for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • families

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

Choose Dublin for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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. Atlanta 10, Dublin 27: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Dublin 50: Atlanta leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Dublin 62: Atlanta leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Dublin 70: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Dublin 57: Atlanta leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Dublin 20: Atlanta leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Dublin 25: Atlanta leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Dublin.

Your match

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

Atlanta
49match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around 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.

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Atlanta 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaDublin
Official language-English, Irish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m20 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaDublin
City population498,715592,713
People per km²1,4335,154
Museums within 10 km2740
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.