VacationSelector

Dublin or Zurich?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

DublinZurich
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinZurich
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1123
Coast distance3 km632 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinZurich
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3730
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 1 points.1
DublinZurich
Score5556
Museums within 10 km4776
Museums within 2 km of centre3737
Share of museums within 2 km %7949
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 10 points.10
DublinZurich
Score6454
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7582
Nightclubs within 4 km4074
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 11 points.11
DublinZurich
Score2637
Protected land share 50 km %316
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 18 points.18
DublinZurich
Score5436
Tourist attractions within 2 km418
Park area within 2 km43 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinZurich
Score6259
Notable places within 2 km141119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 22 points.22
DublinZurich
Score5735
Price level global80.2110.5
Daily budget€187€248
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
DublinZurich
Score5453
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
2 h 15 m
€77-134
DUB · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 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

MeasureDublinZurich
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m408 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinZurich
City population592,713452,421
People per km²5,1545,147
Museums within 10 km4063
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7478
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. 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.