VacationSelector

Dubai or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

DubaiDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 23 points.23
DubaiDubrovnik
Score10077
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km5243
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 28 points.28
DubaiDubrovnik
Score6638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2618
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
DubaiDubrovnik
Score3849
Museums within 10 km2618
Museums within 2 km of centre1817
Share of museums within 2 km %6994
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 33 points.33
DubaiDubrovnik
Score5320
Drinking venues within 4 km601128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5186
Nightclubs within 4 km8413
Nature & day trips. Dubai leads by 13 points.13
DubaiDubrovnik
Score185
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %5251
Park area within 2 km13 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 28 points.28
DubaiDubrovnik
Score4921
Tourist attractions within 2 km3712
Park area within 2 km13 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 7 points.7
DubaiDubrovnik
Score3744
Notable places within 2 km3348
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
DubaiDubrovnik
Score6980
Price level global63.448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiDubrovnik
Score6665
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months120
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 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 fromDubaiDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ZagrebZAG
5 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
ViennaVIE
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
MunichMUC
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
7 h 40 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
AlmatyALA
4 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 99 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

MeasureDubaiDubrovnik
Official languageArabicCroatian
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiDubrovnik
City population3,944,75141,562
Museums within 10 km147
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre5232
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.