VacationSelector

Brussels or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BrusselsDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km043
Coast distance56 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 43 points.43
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score8138
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4418
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 31 points.31
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score8049
Museums within 10 km12018
Museums within 2 km of centre5917
Share of museums within 2 km %4994
Unesco sites within 50 km103
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 48 points.48
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score6820
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6186
Nightclubs within 4 km8413
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 26 points.26
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score315
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %14
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km65 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 35 points.35
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score5621
Tourist attractions within 2 km2812
Park area within 2 km65 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 29 points.29
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score7344
Notable places within 2 km25448
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 20 points.20
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score6080
Price level global76.248.5
Daily budget€180€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 8 points.8
BrusselsDubrovnik
Score5765
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months00
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 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 fromBrusselsDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 50 m
no fares
CRL · 43 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBrusselsDubrovnik
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
Elevation70 m10 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 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

MeasureBrusselsDubrovnik
City population195,54641,562
People per km²5,908
Museums within 10 km1057
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km103
Distinct cuisines in the centre10932
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.