VacationSelector

Dublin or New York?

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

Your match

Dublin
55
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

DublinNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 15 points.15
DublinNew York
Score4964
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1117
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 25 points.25
DublinNew York
Score7095
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9206,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3738
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 5 points.5
DublinNew York
Score5560
Museums within 10 km47119
Museums within 2 km of centre3731
Share of museums within 2 km %7926
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 25 points.25
DublinNew York
Score6489
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2394,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9342,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7548
Nightclubs within 4 km40192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 13 points.13
DublinNew York
Score2639
Protected land share 50 km %34
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6269
Park area within 2 km43 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 18 points.18
DublinNew York
Score5472
Tourist attractions within 2 km4137
Park area within 2 km43 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. New York leads by 12 points.12
DublinNew York
Score6274
Notable places within 2 km141268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinNew York
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. New York leads by 4 points.4
DublinNew York
Score5458
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
New York
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromDublinNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 20 m
€519-589
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 0 m
€193-222
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureDublinNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinNew York
City population592,7138,804,190
People per km²5,1547,256
Museums within 10 km40157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre74132
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.