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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
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Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Dublin or Palm Springs?

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
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, Palm Springs 40: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, Palm Springs 42: Dublin leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, Palm Springs 36: Dublin leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, Palm Springs 38: Dublin leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, Palm Springs 40: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, Palm Springs 22: Dublin leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, Palm Springs 44: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, Palm Springs 32: Palm Springs leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, Palm Springs 40: Dublin leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 55 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and Palm Springs.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and prices 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 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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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinPalm Springs
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m146 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinPalm Springs
City population592,71344,575
People per km²5,154181
Museums within 10 km403
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.