VacationSelector

Dublin or Kuala Lumpur?

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

Your match

Dublin
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DublinKuala Lumpur
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 9 points.9
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score4940
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km38 km
Water distance3 km36 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 8 points.8
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score7078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9202,358
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3728
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 4 points.4
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score5551
Museums within 10 km4741
Museums within 2 km of centre3726
Share of museums within 2 km %7963
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 3 points.3
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score6467
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2391,308
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934735
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7556
Nightclubs within 4 km40126
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 43 points.43
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score2669
Protected land share 50 km %328
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6297
Park area within 2 km43 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 6 points.6
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score5460
Tourist attractions within 2 km4126
Park area within 2 km43 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score6251
Notable places within 2 km14175
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 35 points.35
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score5792
Price level global80.230.6
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
DublinKuala Lumpur
Score5452
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C31.9 °C to 33.7 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm145 mm to 360 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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Kuala Lumpur
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinKuala Lumpur
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 10 m
€203-227
KUL · 45 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 50 m
€215-226
1 stop
KUL · 45 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
DohaDOH
7 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 9 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
KUL · 45 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

MeasureDublinKuala Lumpur
Official languageEnglish, IrishMalay
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation20 m50 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinKuala Lumpur
City population592,7139,000,280
People per km²5,15436,932
Museums within 10 km4025
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7469
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.