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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Dublin or St. Pete Beach?

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

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

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, St. Pete Beach 40: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, St. Pete Beach 18: Dublin leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, St. Pete Beach 28: Dublin leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, St. Pete Beach 57: Dublin leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, St. Pete Beach 58: Dublin leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, St. Pete Beach 30: Dublin leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, St. Pete Beach 20: Dublin leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, St. Pete Beach 32: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, St. Pete Beach 20: Dublin leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinSt. Pete Beach
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m2 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinSt. Pete Beach
City population592,7138,879
People per km²5,154173
Museums within 10 km402
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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