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The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Bethany Beach 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 Bethany Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Dublin for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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. Bethany Beach 72, Dublin 27: Bethany Beach leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Bethany Beach 35, Dublin 50: Dublin leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Bethany Beach 10, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Bethany Beach 12, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bethany Beach 48, Dublin 70: Dublin leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bethany Beach 45, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Bethany Beach 66, Dublin 57: Bethany Beach leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Bethany Beach 33, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Bethany Beach 28, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Bethany Beach 30, Dublin 20: Bethany Beach leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bethany Beach 14, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bethany Beach 33, Dublin 25: Bethany Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bethany Beach and Dublin.

Your match

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

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 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

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach 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. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBethany BeachDublin
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
Elevation3 m20 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBethany BeachDublin
City population954592,713
People per km²3185,154
Museums within 10 km040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.