VacationSelector

Dublin or Vancouver?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Dublin
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

DublinVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
DublinVancouver
Score4960
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11109
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 4 points.4
DublinVancouver
Score7074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3735
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 21 points.21
DublinVancouver
Score5534
Museums within 10 km4727
Museums within 2 km of centre3715
Share of museums within 2 km %7956
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 7 points.7
DublinVancouver
Score6457
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7571
Nightclubs within 4 km4044
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 51 points.51
DublinVancouver
Score2677
Protected land share 50 km %319
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6260
Park area within 2 km43 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
DublinVancouver
Score5453
Tourist attractions within 2 km4115
Park area within 2 km43 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinVancouver
Score6248
Notable places within 2 km14163
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinVancouver
Score5754
Price level global80.284
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
DublinVancouver
Score5453
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months00
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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
10 h 40 m
€681-795
YVR · 9 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

MeasureDublinVancouver
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m2 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinVancouver
City population592,713662,248
People per km²5,1545,759
Museums within 10 km4026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7485
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.