VacationSelector

Berlin or Dubai?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Dubai
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.

BerlinDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
BerlinDubai
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1752
Coast distance142 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinDubai
Score7066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3326
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 41 points.41
BerlinDubai
Score7938
Museums within 10 km20026
Museums within 2 km of centre8118
Share of museums within 2 km %4169
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinDubai
Score7653
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3451
Nightclubs within 4 km13584
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 31 points.31
BerlinDubai
Score4918
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km141 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 27 points.27
BerlinDubai
Score7649
Tourist attractions within 2 km5437
Park area within 2 km141 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 47 points.47
BerlinDubai
Score8437
Notable places within 2 km48633
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 9 points.9
BerlinDubai
Score6069
Price level global75.963.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 6 points.6
BerlinDubai
Score6066
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months312
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Dubai
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinDubai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
6 h 15 m
€237-344
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
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 2026-08 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

MeasureBerlinDubai
Official languageGermanArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m0 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinDubai
City population3,782,2023,944,751
People per km²4,244
Museums within 10 km15814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8652
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). 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. 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. 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.