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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Dublin or Santa Fe?

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

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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, Santa Fe 5: Dublin leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, Santa Fe 22: Dublin leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, Santa Fe 70: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, Santa Fe 45: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, Santa Fe 40: Dublin leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, Santa Fe 30: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, Santa Fe 55: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and Santa Fe.

Your match

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

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on wellness and food and drink 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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinSanta Fe
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m2,134 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinSanta Fe
City population592,71387,505
People per km²5,154645
Museums within 10 km4010
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.