VacationSelector

Chicago or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

ChicagoDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 24 points.24
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score5377
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km1243
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 43 points.43
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score8138
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3718
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 3 points.3
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score4649
Museums within 10 km4518
Museums within 2 km of centre2017
Share of museums within 2 km %4494
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 42 points.42
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score6220
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6586
Nightclubs within 4 km5113
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 33 points.33
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score385
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km118 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 34 points.34
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score5521
Tourist attractions within 2 km1812
Park area within 2 km118 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 26 points.26
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score7044
Notable places within 2 km21748
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 37 points.37
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 8 points.8
ChicagoDubrovnik
Score5765
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 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 fromChicagoDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
7 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 50 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
9 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
MunichMUC
9 h 15 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
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 2026-08 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

MeasureChicagoDubrovnik
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m10 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoDubrovnik
City population2,746,38841,562
People per km²4,529
Museums within 10 km437
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8732
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 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.