VacationSelector

Budapest or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BudapestDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
BudapestDubrovnik
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km643
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 39 points.39
BudapestDubrovnik
Score7738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3518
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 15 points.15
BudapestDubrovnik
Score6449
Museums within 10 km14418
Museums within 2 km of centre6417
Share of museums within 2 km %4494
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 52 points.52
BudapestDubrovnik
Score7220
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6686
Nightclubs within 4 km9713
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 35 points.35
BudapestDubrovnik
Score405
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km111 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 50 points.50
BudapestDubrovnik
Score7121
Tourist attractions within 2 km7512
Park area within 2 km111 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 25 points.25
BudapestDubrovnik
Score6944
Notable places within 2 km20648
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest and Dubrovnik are level on 80.
BudapestDubrovnik
Score8080
Price level global4848.5
Daily budget€104€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 1 points.1
BudapestDubrovnik
Score6465
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 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 fromBudapestDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
€121-132
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
55 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestDubrovnik
Official languageHungarianCroatian
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m10 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestDubrovnik
City population1,685,20941,562
People per km²3,209
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8632
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). 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. 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.

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.