VacationSelector

Dublin or Florence?

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, level with your weighting

Dublin
55
match

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

Florence
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

DublinFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinFlorence
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km78 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinFlorence
Score7059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3715
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 27 points.27
DublinFlorence
Score5582
Museums within 10 km47132
Museums within 2 km of centre3793
Share of museums within 2 km %7970
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 8 points.8
DublinFlorence
Score6456
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7573
Nightclubs within 4 km4034
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 12 points.12
DublinFlorence
Score2638
Protected land share 50 km %39
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
DublinFlorence
Score5452
Tourist attractions within 2 km4130
Park area within 2 km43 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 13 points.13
DublinFlorence
Score6275
Notable places within 2 km141292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 11 points.11
DublinFlorence
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 14 points.14
DublinFlorence
Score5468
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Florence
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Florence
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
Florence
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinFlorence
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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

MeasureDublinFlorence
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m50 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinFlorence
City population592,713360,930
People per km²5,1543,528
Museums within 10 km40140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre7462
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.