VacationSelector

Dubai or Venice?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Dubai
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

DubaiVenice
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 31 points.31
DubaiVenice
Score10069
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km5220
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 21 points.21
DubaiVenice
Score6645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2610
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 34 points.34
DubaiVenice
Score3872
Museums within 10 km2657
Museums within 2 km of centre1845
Share of museums within 2 km %6979
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 18 points.18
DubaiVenice
Score5335
Drinking venues within 4 km601342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5189
Nightclubs within 4 km843
Nature & day trips. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiVenice
Score1817
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5270
Park area within 2 km13 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 8 points.8
DubaiVenice
Score4957
Tourist attractions within 2 km3772
Park area within 2 km13 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 46 points.46
DubaiVenice
Score3783
Notable places within 2 km33464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiVenice
Score6968
Price level global63.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Dubai and Venice are level on 66.
DubaiVenice
Score6666
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months122
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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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
6 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
RiyadhRUH
1 h 40 m
€106-123
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
7 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureDubaiVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiVenice
City population3,944,751250,369
People per km²602
Museums within 10 km1452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre5246
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.