VacationSelector

Dublin or Rovaniemi?

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 nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

DublinRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinRovaniemi
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1113
Coast distance3 km99 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinRovaniemi
Score7021
Restaurants within 2 km of centre92080
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3714
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 35 points.35
DublinRovaniemi
Score5520
Museums within 10 km478
Museums within 2 km of centre377
Share of museums within 2 km %7988
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 60 points.60
DublinRovaniemi
Score644
Drinking venues within 4 km1,23952
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre93442
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7581
Nightclubs within 4 km403
Nature & day trips. Dublin leads by 10 points.10
DublinRovaniemi
Score2616
Protected land share 50 km %32
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 33 points.33
DublinRovaniemi
Score5421
Tourist attractions within 2 km412
Park area within 2 km43 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 37 points.37
DublinRovaniemi
Score6225
Notable places within 2 km14117
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
DublinRovaniemi
Score5756
Price level global80.281.6
Daily budget€187€184
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinRovaniemi
Score5443
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months05
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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Rovaniemi
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). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€60-123
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€53-95
DUB · 9 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 5 m
€39-41
DUB · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 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

MeasureDublinRovaniemi
Official languageEnglish, IrishFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m88 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinRovaniemi
City population592,71365,329
People per km²5,1549
Museums within 10 km406
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7416
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.