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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

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

Dublin or Sedona?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Dublin leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, Sedona 33: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, Sedona 20: Dublin leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, Sedona 8: Dublin leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, Sedona 55: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, Sedona 42: Dublin leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, Sedona 22: Dublin leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, Sedona 34: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, Sedona 18: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, Sedona 13: Dublin leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 57 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and Sedona.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 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

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinSedona
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m1,319 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinSedona
City population592,7139,684
People per km²5,154195
Museums within 10 km400
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.