VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Gdansk?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikGdansk
Score7755
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4320
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Gdansk leads by 14 points.14
DubrovnikGdansk
Score3852
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1828
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
DubrovnikGdansk
Score4957
Museums within 10 km1843
Museums within 2 km of centre1728
Share of museums within 2 km %9465
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Gdansk leads by 16 points.16
DubrovnikGdansk
Score2036
Drinking venues within 4 km128269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8675
Nightclubs within 4 km1330
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 40 points.40
DubrovnikGdansk
Score545
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %43
Land share of disc %5170
Park area within 2 km6 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 54 points.54
DubrovnikGdansk
Score2175
Tourist attractions within 2 km12108
Park area within 2 km6 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
DubrovnikGdansk
Score4452
Notable places within 2 km4876
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikGdansk
Score8079
Price level global48.549
Daily budget€138€133
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 13 points.13
DubrovnikGdansk
Score6552
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1

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). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 5 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€116-147
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€102-184
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€120-150
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 25 m
no fares
SJJ · 133 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 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

MeasureDubrovnikGdansk
Official languageCroatianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikGdansk
City population41,562487,834
People per km²714
Museums within 10 km737
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3248
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.