VacationSelector

Dublin or Vienna?

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

Your match

Dublin
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

DublinVienna
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinVienna
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1122
Coast distance3 km10,000 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
DublinVienna
Score7077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3737
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 26 points.26
DublinVienna
Score5581
Museums within 10 km47192
Museums within 2 km of centre37110
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 10 points.10
DublinVienna
Score6474
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2391,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9341,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7556
Nightclubs within 4 km40108
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 6 points.6
DublinVienna
Score2632
Protected land share 50 km %34
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 15 points.15
DublinVienna
Score5469
Tourist attractions within 2 km4146
Park area within 2 km43 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 13 points.13
DublinVienna
Score6275
Notable places within 2 km141287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
DublinVienna
Score5759
Price level global80.276.9
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
DublinVienna
Score5461
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureDublinVienna
Official languageEnglish, IrishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m151 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinVienna
City population592,7132,028,289
People per km²5,1544,890
Museums within 10 km40152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre74113
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.