VacationSelector

Dublin or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DublinDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 28 points.28
DublinDubrovnik
Score4977
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1143
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 32 points.32
DublinDubrovnik
Score7038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3718
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
DublinDubrovnik
Score5549
Museums within 10 km4718
Museums within 2 km of centre3717
Share of museums within 2 km %7994
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 44 points.44
DublinDubrovnik
Score6420
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7586
Nightclubs within 4 km4013
Nature & day trips. Dublin leads by 21 points.21
DublinDubrovnik
Score265
Protected land share 50 km %34
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %6251
Park area within 2 km43 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 33 points.33
DublinDubrovnik
Score5421
Tourist attractions within 2 km4112
Park area within 2 km43 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 18 points.18
DublinDubrovnik
Score6244
Notable places within 2 km14148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 23 points.23
DublinDubrovnik
Score5780
Price level global80.248.5
Daily budget€187€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
DublinDubrovnik
Score5465
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm54 mm to 198 mm
Dry months00
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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 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 fromDublinDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ZagrebZAG
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 15 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

MeasureDublinDubrovnik
Official languageEnglish, IrishCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m10 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinDubrovnik
City population592,71341,562
People per km²5,154
Museums within 10 km407
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7432
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). 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. 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.