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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Dublin or Nashville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Dublin for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’s own page.

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Dublin 27, Nashville 14: Dublin leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, Nashville 50: Dublin leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, Nashville 46: Dublin leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, Nashville 52: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, Nashville 55: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, Nashville 30: Dublin leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, Nashville 42: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, Nashville 30: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, Nashville 20: Dublin leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and Nashville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinNashville
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m182 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinNashville
City population592,713689,447
People per km²5,154506
Museums within 10 km4012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.