VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Geneva?

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.

Geneva
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

DubrovnikGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikGeneva
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4343
Coast distance0 km279 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 32 points.32
DubrovnikGeneva
Score3870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 3 points.3
DubrovnikGeneva
Score4952
Museums within 10 km1835
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %9457
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 30 points.30
DubrovnikGeneva
Score2050
Drinking venues within 4 km128549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8678
Nightclubs within 4 km1360
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 54 points.54
DubrovnikGeneva
Score559
Protected land share 50 km %427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %421
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 44 points.44
DubrovnikGeneva
Score2165
Tourist attractions within 2 km1228
Park area within 2 km6 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikGeneva
Score4456
Notable places within 2 km4899
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 45 points.45
DubrovnikGeneva
Score8035
Price level global48.5110.5
Daily budget€138€248
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikGeneva
Score6559
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
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). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€235-253
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
GNB · 113 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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

MeasureDubrovnikGeneva
Official languageCroatianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m403 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikGeneva
City population41,562209,061
People per km²13,148
Museums within 10 km735
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3280
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.