VacationSelector

Dublin or Tampa?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

DublinTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 26 points.26
DublinTampa
Score4975
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km1110
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 16 points.16
DublinTampa
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3731
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 28 points.28
DublinTampa
Score5527
Museums within 10 km4713
Museums within 2 km of centre3710
Share of museums within 2 km %7977
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 25 points.25
DublinTampa
Score6439
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km4026
Nature & day trips. Tampa leads by 4 points.4
DublinTampa
Score2630
Protected land share 50 km %36
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6272
Park area within 2 km43 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 24 points.24
DublinTampa
Score5430
Tourist attractions within 2 km413
Park area within 2 km43 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 41 points.41
DublinTampa
Score6221
Notable places within 2 km14113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinTampa
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 21 points.21
DublinTampa
Score5475
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
6 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureDublinTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinTampa
City population592,713384,959
People per km²5,154848
Museums within 10 km406
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7447
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.