VacationSelector

Dublin or Lisbon?

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

Your match

Dublin
55
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DublinLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 8 points.8
DublinLisbon
Score4957
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1124
Coast distance3 km2 km
Water distance3 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
DublinLisbon
Score7080
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9202,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3731
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 15 points.15
DublinLisbon
Score5570
Museums within 10 km47124
Museums within 2 km of centre3754
Share of museums within 2 km %7944
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 1 points.1
DublinLisbon
Score6465
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2391,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km4065
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 30 points.30
DublinLisbon
Score2656
Protected land share 50 km %311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6254
Park area within 2 km43 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 15 points.15
DublinLisbon
Score5469
Tourist attractions within 2 km4182
Park area within 2 km43 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
DublinLisbon
Score6266
Notable places within 2 km141169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 17 points.17
DublinLisbon
Score5774
Price level global80.255.9
Daily budget€187€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 24 points.24
DublinLisbon
Score5478
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months04
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€53-95
DUB · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 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

MeasureDublinLisbon
Official languageEnglish, IrishPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m100 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinLisbon
City population592,713545,796
People per km²5,1545,453
Museums within 10 km4078
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre74106
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. 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.