VacationSelector

Dublin or Miami?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Dublin
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

DublinMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 46 points.46
DublinMiami
Score4995
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1120
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 5 points.5
DublinMiami
Score7065
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3729
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 32 points.32
DublinMiami
Score5523
Museums within 10 km4728
Museums within 2 km of centre376
Share of museums within 2 km %7921
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinMiami
Score6450
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7553
Nightclubs within 4 km4063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 46 points.46
DublinMiami
Score2672
Protected land share 50 km %316
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6248
Park area within 2 km43 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 10 points.10
DublinMiami
Score5444
Tourist attractions within 2 km4114
Park area within 2 km43 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 20 points.20
DublinMiami
Score6242
Notable places within 2 km14145
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinMiami
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 20 points.20
DublinMiami
Score5474
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 20 m
€519-589
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
3 h 5 m
€274-342
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 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

MeasureDublinMiami
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m2 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinMiami
City population592,713442,241
People per km²5,1543,046
Museums within 10 km4017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7439
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.