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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Catania or Dubrovnik?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Catania for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Catania’s own page.

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Catania 72, Dubrovnik 74: Dubrovnik leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Dubrovnik 47: Catania leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Dubrovnik 37: Catania leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Dubrovnik 70: Catania leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Dubrovnik 66: Catania leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Catania and Dubrovnik are level on 50.
Getting around. Catania 48, Dubrovnik 60: Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Dubrovnik 25: Catania leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Dubrovnik 28: Catania leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Dubrovnik 25: Catania leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Dubrovnik 32: Dubrovnik leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Dubrovnik.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

Dubrovnik has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaDubrovnik
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
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaDubrovnik
City population311,58441,562
People per km²1,704-
Museums within 10 km257
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.