VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Ghent?

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.

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

DubrovnikGhent
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 51 points.51
DubrovnikGhent
Score7726
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km438
Coast distance0 km32 km
Water distance0 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 32 points.32
DubrovnikGhent
Score3870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1849
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 9 points.9
DubrovnikGhent
Score4958
Museums within 10 km1824
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %9483
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 29 points.29
DubrovnikGhent
Score2049
Drinking venues within 4 km128570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8678
Nightclubs within 4 km1326
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 29 points.29
DubrovnikGhent
Score534
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %44
Land share of disc %5187
Park area within 2 km6 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 29 points.29
DubrovnikGhent
Score2150
Tourist attractions within 2 km1219
Park area within 2 km6 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
DubrovnikGhent
Score4446
Notable places within 2 km4855
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 20 points.20
DubrovnikGhent
Score8060
Price level global48.576.2
Daily budget€138€180
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.9
DubrovnikGhent
Score6556
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months01
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ghent
9
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikGhent
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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 2026-08 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

MeasureDubrovnikGhent
Official languageCroatianFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m12 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikGhent
City population41,562272,657
People per km²1,728
Museums within 10 km730
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre3283
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.