VacationSelector

Belfast or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

BelfastDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 29 points.29
BelfastDubrovnik
Score4877
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1043
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 18 points.18
BelfastDubrovnik
Score5638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3118
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 20 points.20
BelfastDubrovnik
Score2949
Museums within 10 km1818
Museums within 2 km of centre617
Share of museums within 2 km %3394
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 28 points.28
BelfastDubrovnik
Score4820
Drinking venues within 4 km550128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6386
Nightclubs within 4 km2913
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastDubrovnik
Score535
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %134
Land share of disc %6551
Park area within 2 km68 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 27 points.27
BelfastDubrovnik
Score4821
Tourist attractions within 2 km1612
Park area within 2 km68 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 2 points.2
BelfastDubrovnik
Score4244
Notable places within 2 km4348
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.26
BelfastDubrovnik
Score5480
Price level global84.948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 14 points.14
BelfastDubrovnik
Score5165
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months00
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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 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 fromBelfastDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ZagrebZAG
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
BristolBRS
1 h 10 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€86-130
1 stop
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

MeasureBelfastDubrovnik
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastDubrovnik
City population345,00641,562
People per km²3,000
Museums within 10 km87
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4432
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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. 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.