VacationSelector

Dublin or Lyon?

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.

Lyon
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and places to eat 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.

DublinLyon
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinLyon
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1126
Coast distance3 km253 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 9 points.9
DublinLyon
Score7079
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3740
Museums & heritage. Dublin and Lyon are level on 55.
DublinLyon
Score5555
Museums within 10 km4753
Museums within 2 km of centre3725
Share of museums within 2 km %7947
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
DublinLyon
Score6458
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7571
Nightclubs within 4 km4047
Nature & day trips. Lyon leads by 7 points.7
DublinLyon
Score2633
Protected land share 50 km %36
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
DublinLyon
Score5459
Tourist attractions within 2 km4125
Park area within 2 km43 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 8 points.8
DublinLyon
Score6254
Notable places within 2 km14186
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
DublinLyon
Score5762
Price level global80.273.7
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 10 points.10
DublinLyon
Score5464
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€109-165
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureDublinLyon
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench
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 m160 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinLyon
City population592,713519,127
People per km²5,15410,838
Museums within 10 km4042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre74148
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.