VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Izmir?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

DubrovnikIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikIzmir
Score7755
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikIzmir
Score3849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1812
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikIzmir
Score4943
Museums within 10 km1847
Museums within 2 km of centre1727
Share of museums within 2 km %9457
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 42 points.42
DubrovnikIzmir
Score2062
Drinking venues within 4 km1281,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8668
Nightclubs within 4 km1370
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 24 points.24
DubrovnikIzmir
Score529
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5184
Park area within 2 km6 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
DubrovnikIzmir
Score2135
Tourist attractions within 2 km126
Park area within 2 km6 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 4 points.4
DubrovnikIzmir
Score4440
Notable places within 2 km4839
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
DubrovnikIzmir
Score8089
Price level global48.535.2
Daily budget€138€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 7 points.7
DubrovnikIzmir
Score6572
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

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). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AnkaraESB
2 h 5 m
€250-283
2 stops
TGD · 99 km
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
AlmatyALA
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 99 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
ADB · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureDubrovnikIzmir
Official languageCroatianTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikIzmir
City population41,5624,493,242
People per km²4,760
Museums within 10 km729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3220
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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. 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.