VacationSelector

Bruges or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BrugesDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 69 points.69
BrugesDubrovnik
Score877
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km143
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 19 points.19
BrugesDubrovnik
Score5738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3218
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesDubrovnik
Score5749
Museums within 10 km3018
Museums within 2 km of centre2417
Share of museums within 2 km %8094
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 14 points.14
BrugesDubrovnik
Score3420
Drinking venues within 4 km292128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8086
Nightclubs within 4 km813
Nature & day trips. Bruges leads by 21 points.21
BrugesDubrovnik
Score265
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %6551
Park area within 2 km59 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 39 points.39
BrugesDubrovnik
Score6021
Tourist attractions within 2 km5212
Park area within 2 km59 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 4 points.4
BrugesDubrovnik
Score4044
Notable places within 2 km4048
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 20 points.20
BrugesDubrovnik
Score6080
Price level global76.248.5
Daily budget€180€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.9
BrugesDubrovnik
Score5665
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months10
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 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 fromBrugesDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 50 m
no fares
CRL · 120 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 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

MeasureBrugesDubrovnik
Official languageFrench, German, DutchCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m10 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesDubrovnik
City population118,50941,562
People per km²840
Museums within 10 km387
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre5132
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). 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. 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.