VacationSelector

Bologna or Dublin?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BolognaDublin
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
BolognaDublin
Score049
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km211
Coast distance74 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 12 points.12
BolognaDublin
Score5870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822920
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2037
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 12 points.12
BolognaDublin
Score6755
Museums within 10 km5847
Museums within 2 km of centre4337
Share of museums within 2 km %7479
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
BolognaDublin
Score5364
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,239
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531934
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km3040
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 13 points.13
BolognaDublin
Score3926
Protected land share 50 km %73
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km119 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 1 points.1
BolognaDublin
Score5554
Tourist attractions within 2 km3241
Park area within 2 km119 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
BolognaDublin
Score6062
Notable places within 2 km120141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 11 points.11
BolognaDublin
Score6857
Price level global64.980.2
Daily budget€155€187
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 13 points.13
BolognaDublin
Score6754
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C8.2 °C to 19.5 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm52 mm to 83 mm
Dry months50
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaDublin
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaDublin
Official languageItalianEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m20 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaDublin
City population387,971592,713
People per km²2,7545,154
Museums within 10 km6640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6274
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.