VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Faro?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

DubrovnikFaro
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 16 points.16
DubrovnikFaro
Score7761
Swim season months53
Beaches 10 km4313
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikFaro
Score3844
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1822
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 27 points.27
DubrovnikFaro
Score4922
Museums within 10 km189
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %9489
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Faro leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikFaro
Score2021
Drinking venues within 4 km128143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8686
Nightclubs within 4 km138
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 52 points.52
DubrovnikFaro
Score557
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5142
Park area within 2 km6 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 15 points.15
DubrovnikFaro
Score2136
Tourist attractions within 2 km1210
Park area within 2 km6 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikFaro
Score4422
Notable places within 2 km4814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikFaro
Score8074
Price level global48.555.9
Daily budget€138€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 18 points.18
DubrovnikFaro
Score6583
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

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). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BristolBRS
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
3 h 25 m
€156-284
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureDubrovnikFaro
Official languageCroatianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikFaro
City population41,56264,560
People per km²319
Museums within 10 km72
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3234
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 months

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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.