VacationSelector

Dublin or Maastricht?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
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.

DublinMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinMaastricht
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km116
Coast distance3 km118 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 22 points.22
DublinMaastricht
Score7048
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3722
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
DublinMaastricht
Score5553
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre3713
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 34 points.34
DublinMaastricht
Score6430
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7582
Nightclubs within 4 km4013
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 11 points.11
DublinMaastricht
Score2637
Protected land share 50 km %319
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 8 points.8
DublinMaastricht
Score5446
Tourist attractions within 2 km4115
Park area within 2 km43 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 26 points.26
DublinMaastricht
Score6236
Notable places within 2 km14132
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 1 points.1
DublinMaastricht
Score5758
Price level global80.279.2
Daily budget€187€181
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 5 points.5
DublinMaastricht
Score5459
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
FaroFAO
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€53-95
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 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

MeasureDublinMaastricht
Official languageEnglish, IrishDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation20 m49 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinMaastricht
City population592,713120,227
People per km²5,1542,000
Museums within 10 km4021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7433
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.