VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Edinburgh?

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

Your match

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

DubrovnikEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score7755
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4320
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 32 points.32
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score3870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 8 points.8
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score4957
Museums within 10 km1830
Museums within 2 km of centre1722
Share of museums within 2 km %9473
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 44 points.44
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score2064
Drinking venues within 4 km1281,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8674
Nightclubs within 4 km1365
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 30 points.30
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score535
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %41
Land share of disc %5185
Park area within 2 km6 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 51 points.51
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score2172
Tourist attractions within 2 km1287
Park area within 2 km6 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 16 points.16
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score4460
Notable places within 2 km48126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.26
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score8054
Price level global48.584.9
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 14 points.14
DubrovnikEdinburgh
Score6551
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm43 mm to 80 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikEdinburgh
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 5 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
3 h 10 m
€116-161
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureDubrovnikEdinburgh
Official languageCroatianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m47 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikEdinburgh
City population41,562488,050
People per km²1,884
Museums within 10 km732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre3278
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.