VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Helsinki?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
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.

DubrovnikHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score7760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km43157
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 33 points.33
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score3871
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1838
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik and Helsinki are level on 49.
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score4949
Museums within 10 km1857
Museums within 2 km of centre1723
Share of museums within 2 km %9440
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 36 points.36
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score2056
Drinking venues within 4 km128807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8675
Nightclubs within 4 km1340
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 37 points.37
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score542
Protected land share 50 km %43
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5153
Park area within 2 km6 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 37 points.37
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score2158
Tourist attractions within 2 km1220
Park area within 2 km6 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 29 points.29
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score4473
Notable places within 2 km48257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 24 points.24
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score8056
Price level global48.581.6
Daily budget€138€184
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikHelsinki
Score6548
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm32 mm to 84 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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
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). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikHelsinki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€102-184
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€136-220
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€116-147
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureDubrovnikHelsinki
Official languageCroatianFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m17 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikHelsinki
City population41,562694,392
People per km²3,239
Museums within 10 km774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3278
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.