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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Dublin or Puerto Plata?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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, Puerto Plata 80: Puerto Plata leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, Puerto Plata 40: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, Puerto Plata 35: Dublin leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, Puerto Plata 38: Dublin leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, Puerto Plata 68: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, Puerto Plata 48: Dublin leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Dublin and Puerto Plata are level on 57.
Getting around. Dublin 66, Puerto Plata 30: Dublin leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, Puerto Plata 30: Dublin leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, Puerto Plata 64: Puerto Plata leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, Puerto Plata 18: Dublin leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, Puerto Plata 35: Puerto Plata leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and Puerto Plata.

Your match

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

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches 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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Plata 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). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinPuerto Plata
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m34 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinPuerto Plata
City population592,713-
People per km²5,154-
Museums within 10 km401
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.