VacationSelector

Dublin or Salzburg?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

DublinSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinSalzburg
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km119
Coast distance3 km653 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 21 points.21
DublinSalzburg
Score7049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3723
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
DublinSalzburg
Score5560
Museums within 10 km4742
Museums within 2 km of centre3727
Share of museums within 2 km %7964
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 28 points.28
DublinSalzburg
Score6436
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7582
Nightclubs within 4 km4016
Nature & day trips. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
DublinSalzburg
Score2627
Protected land share 50 km %36
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
DublinSalzburg
Score5448
Tourist attractions within 2 km4117
Park area within 2 km43 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 16 points.16
DublinSalzburg
Score6246
Notable places within 2 km14154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 2 points.2
DublinSalzburg
Score5759
Price level global80.276.9
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Dublin and Salzburg are level on 54.
DublinSalzburg
Score5454
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinSalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
4 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureDublinSalzburg
Official languageEnglish, IrishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m424 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinSalzburg
City population592,713155,021
People per km²5,1542,360
Museums within 10 km4038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7450
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.