VacationSelector

Dublin or Philadelphia?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

DublinPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinPhiladelphia
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km111
Coast distance3 km13 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
DublinPhiladelphia
Score7077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3735
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
DublinPhiladelphia
Score5560
Museums within 10 km4789
Museums within 2 km of centre3748
Share of museums within 2 km %7954
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 5 points.5
DublinPhiladelphia
Score6459
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km4041
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
DublinPhiladelphia
Score2649
Protected land share 50 km %314
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6289
Park area within 2 km43 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
DublinPhiladelphia
Score5453
Tourist attractions within 2 km4116
Park area within 2 km43 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 8 points.8
DublinPhiladelphia
Score6254
Notable places within 2 km14188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinPhiladelphia
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 6 points.6
DublinPhiladelphia
Score5460
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 20 m
€519-589
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
DohaDOH
7 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasureDublinPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinPhiladelphia
City population592,7131,603,797
People per km²5,1544,339
Museums within 10 km4054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7475
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. 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.