VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CopenhagenDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score5477
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1743
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 35 points.35
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score7338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3718
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 26 points.26
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score7549
Museums within 10 km8318
Museums within 2 km of centre5117
Share of museums within 2 km %6194
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 47 points.47
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score6720
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5886
Nightclubs within 4 km6413
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 45 points.45
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score505
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %3951
Park area within 2 km138 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 50 points.50
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score7121
Tourist attractions within 2 km5412
Park area within 2 km138 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 30 points.30
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score7444
Notable places within 2 km27348
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 28 points.28
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score5280
Price level global87.848.5
Daily budget€214€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenDubrovnik
Score5565
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months30
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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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 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 fromCopenhagenDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
ZagrebZAG
2 h 0 m
no fares
MMX · 53 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€94-142
CPH · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€102-184
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 45 m
€143-174
CPH · 8 km
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
9 h 10 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCopenhagenDubrovnik
Official languageDanishCroatian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m10 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenDubrovnik
City population667,09941,562
People per km²7,339
Museums within 10 km727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre8232
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). 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. 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.