VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Florence?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

DubrovnikFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikFlorence
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance0 km78 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 21 points.21
DubrovnikFlorence
Score3859
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1815
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 33 points.33
DubrovnikFlorence
Score4982
Museums within 10 km18132
Museums within 2 km of centre1793
Share of museums within 2 km %9470
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Florence leads by 36 points.36
DubrovnikFlorence
Score2056
Drinking venues within 4 km128818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8673
Nightclubs within 4 km1334
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 33 points.33
DubrovnikFlorence
Score538
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %42
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 31 points.31
DubrovnikFlorence
Score2152
Tourist attractions within 2 km1230
Park area within 2 km6 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 31 points.31
DubrovnikFlorence
Score4475
Notable places within 2 km48292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikFlorence
Score8068
Price level global48.564.9
Daily budget€138€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 3 points.3
DubrovnikFlorence
Score6568
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Florence
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikFlorence
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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

MeasureDubrovnikFlorence
Official languageCroatianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m50 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikFlorence
City population41,562360,930
People per km²3,528
Museums within 10 km7140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre3262
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.