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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo

Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Dublin or Tamarindo?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Tamarindo for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Tamarindo’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, Tamarindo 85: Tamarindo leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, Tamarindo 38: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, Tamarindo 5: Dublin leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, Tamarindo 45: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, Tamarindo 76: Tamarindo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, Tamarindo 28: Dublin leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, Tamarindo 55: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, Tamarindo 32: Dublin leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, Tamarindo 18: Dublin leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, Tamarindo 36: Tamarindo leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, Tamarindo 10: Dublin leads by 55 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and Tamarindo.

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.

Tamarindo
39match

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

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo 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). Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinTamarindo
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m27 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinTamarindo
City population592,7137,132
People per km²5,15457
Museums within 10 km400
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.