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Bologna or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

BolognaDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
BolognaDubrovnik
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km243
Coast distance74 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 20 points.20
BolognaDubrovnik
Score5838
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2018
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 18 points.18
BolognaDubrovnik
Score6749
Museums within 10 km5818
Museums within 2 km of centre4317
Share of museums within 2 km %7494
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 33 points.33
BolognaDubrovnik
Score5320
Drinking venues within 4 km720128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7486
Nightclubs within 4 km3013
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 34 points.34
BolognaDubrovnik
Score395
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %14
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km119 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 34 points.34
BolognaDubrovnik
Score5521
Tourist attractions within 2 km3212
Park area within 2 km119 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 16 points.16
BolognaDubrovnik
Score6044
Notable places within 2 km12048
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.12
BolognaDubrovnik
Score6880
Price level global64.948.5
Daily budget€155€138
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 2 points.2
BolognaDubrovnik
Score6765
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 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 fromBolognaDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
€85-160
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TGD · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 106 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaDubrovnik
Official languageItalianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m10 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaDubrovnik
City population387,97141,562
People per km²2,754
Museums within 10 km667
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre6232
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.