VacationSelector

Dublin or Ghent?

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 beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Ghent
50
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.

DublinGhent
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 23 points.23
DublinGhent
Score4926
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km118
Coast distance3 km32 km
Water distance3 km32 km
Places to eat. Dublin and Ghent are level on 70.
DublinGhent
Score7070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3749
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
DublinGhent
Score5558
Museums within 10 km4724
Museums within 2 km of centre3720
Share of museums within 2 km %7983
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 15 points.15
DublinGhent
Score6449
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km4026
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
DublinGhent
Score2634
Protected land share 50 km %37
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %6287
Park area within 2 km43 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 4 points.4
DublinGhent
Score5450
Tourist attractions within 2 km4119
Park area within 2 km43 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 16 points.16
DublinGhent
Score6246
Notable places within 2 km14155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
DublinGhent
Score5760
Price level global80.276.2
Daily budget€187€180
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
DublinGhent
Score5456
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months01
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinGhent
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureDublinGhent
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m12 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinGhent
City population592,713272,657
People per km²5,1541,728
Museums within 10 km4030
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7483
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.