VacationSelector

Dubai or Pisa?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

DubaiPisa
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 79 points.79
DubaiPisa
Score10021
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km521
Coast distance0 km10 km
Water distance0 km10 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 32 points.32
DubaiPisa
Score6634
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km269
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 17 points.17
DubaiPisa
Score3855
Museums within 10 km2627
Museums within 2 km of centre1822
Share of museums within 2 km %6981
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 25 points.25
DubaiPisa
Score5328
Drinking venues within 4 km601232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5188
Nightclubs within 4 km843
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
DubaiPisa
Score1839
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5265
Park area within 2 km13 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 2 points.2
DubaiPisa
Score4947
Tourist attractions within 2 km3720
Park area within 2 km13 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 10 points.10
DubaiPisa
Score3747
Notable places within 2 km3358
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiPisa
Score6968
Price level global63.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 4 points.4
DubaiPisa
Score6670
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months122
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
No sunshine record
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
5 h 5 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
5 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
CataniaCTA
5 h 25 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
4 h 40 m
€263-354
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 4 km
PraguePRG
5 h 55 m
€275-303
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€105-189
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 115 km
CagliariCAG
6 h 5 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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

MeasureDubaiPisa
Official languageArabicItalian
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m4 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiPisa
City population3,944,75188,737
People per km²479
Museums within 10 km1427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre5229
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.