VacationSelector

Cardiff or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

CardiffDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 31 points.31
CardiffDubrovnik
Score4677
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km843
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 22 points.22
CardiffDubrovnik
Score6038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3218
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.10
CardiffDubrovnik
Score3949
Museums within 10 km6118
Museums within 2 km of centre617
Share of museums within 2 km %1094
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 28 points.28
CardiffDubrovnik
Score4820
Drinking venues within 4 km536128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7486
Nightclubs within 4 km3513
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 45 points.45
CardiffDubrovnik
Score505
Protected land share 50 km %184
Landscape blanket share 50 km %154
Land share of disc %6851
Park area within 2 km88 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffDubrovnik
Score3221
Tourist attractions within 2 km412
Park area within 2 km88 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 1 points.1
CardiffDubrovnik
Score4544
Notable places within 2 km5148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.26
CardiffDubrovnik
Score5480
Price level global84.948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
CardiffDubrovnik
Score5465
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 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 fromCardiffDubrovnik
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TGD · 99 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
BariBRI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
55 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCardiffDubrovnik
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m10 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffDubrovnik
City population383,53641,562
People per km²2,734
Museums within 10 km97
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5532
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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.