VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Galway?

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

Your match

Dubrovnik
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Galway
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikGalway
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.26
DubrovnikGalway
Score7751
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4313
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Dubrovnik leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikGalway
Score3837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1820
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 29 points.29
DubrovnikGalway
Score4920
Museums within 10 km185
Museums within 2 km of centre175
Share of museums within 2 km %94100
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Galway leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikGalway
Score2026
Drinking venues within 4 km128185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8683
Nightclubs within 4 km138
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 50 points.50
DubrovnikGalway
Score555
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5185
Park area within 2 km6 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Galway leads by 4 points.4
DubrovnikGalway
Score2125
Tourist attractions within 2 km125
Park area within 2 km6 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikGalway
Score4422
Notable places within 2 km4814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 23 points.23
DubrovnikGalway
Score8057
Price level global48.580.2
Daily budget€138€187
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikGalway
Score6554
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
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). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 40 m
€86-130
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
WroclawWRO
1 h 45 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 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

MeasureDubrovnikGalway
Official languageCroatianEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m25 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikGalway
City population41,56283,456
People per km²1,563
Museums within 10 km74
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3225
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. 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.