VacationSelector

Dublin or Zagreb?

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 beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

DublinZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinZagreb
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km118
Coast distance3 km117 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 18 points.18
DublinZagreb
Score7052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3727
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 10 points.10
DublinZagreb
Score5545
Museums within 10 km4741
Museums within 2 km of centre3740
Share of museums within 2 km %7998
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinZagreb
Score6461
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2391,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km4063
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 8 points.8
DublinZagreb
Score2634
Protected land share 50 km %39
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 26 points.26
DublinZagreb
Score5428
Tourist attractions within 2 km417
Park area within 2 km43 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
DublinZagreb
Score6260
Notable places within 2 km141122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 23 points.23
DublinZagreb
Score5780
Price level global80.248.5
Daily budget€187€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 8 points.8
DublinZagreb
Score5462
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinZagreb
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€200-272
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubrovnikDBV
3 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€60-123
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
7 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureDublinZagreb
Official languageEnglish, IrishCroatian
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 m127 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinZagreb
City population592,713767,131
People per km²5,154
Museums within 10 km4027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7442
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.