VacationSelector

Dubai or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

DubaiFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 16 points.16
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score10084
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km527
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 21 points.21
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score6645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2618
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 18 points.18
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score3820
Museums within 10 km2614
Museums within 2 km of centre186
Share of museums within 2 km %6943
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 19 points.19
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score5334
Drinking venues within 4 km601259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5156
Nightclubs within 4 km8418
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 63 points.63
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score1881
Protected land share 50 km %420
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5251
Park area within 2 km13 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 30 points.30
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score4919
Tourist attractions within 2 km372
Park area within 2 km13 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Dubai leads by 37 points.37
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score370
Notable places within 2 km332
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 26 points.26
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score6943
Price level global63.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 10 points.10
DubaiFort Lauderdale
Score6676
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm55 mm to 219 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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Daytime high, °C
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiFort Lauderdale
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 40 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
14 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
14 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
13 h 10 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
16 h 45 m
€1,139-1335
DXB · 7 km
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 41 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

MeasureDubaiFort Lauderdale
Official languageArabic
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiFort Lauderdale
City population3,944,751182,760
People per km²1,829
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5225
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.