VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Killarney?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Dubrovnik
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Wins on 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.

DubrovnikKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 54 points.54
DubrovnikKillarney
Score7723
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km436
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eat. Dubrovnik leads by 16 points.16
DubrovnikKillarney
Score3822
Restaurants within 2 km of centre20665
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1815
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 39 points.39
DubrovnikKillarney
Score4910
Museums within 10 km180
Museums within 2 km of centre170
Share of museums within 2 km %94
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Dubrovnik leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikKillarney
Score203
Drinking venues within 4 km12872
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre11057
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8679
Nightclubs within 4 km130
Nature & day trips. Killarney leads by 4 points.4
DubrovnikKillarney
Score59
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5186
Park area within 2 km6 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Dubrovnik leads by 13 points.13
DubrovnikKillarney
Score218
Tourist attractions within 2 km124
Park area within 2 km6 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 34 points.34
DubrovnikKillarney
Score4410
Notable places within 2 km487
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 23 points.23
DubrovnikKillarney
Score8057
Price level global48.580.2
Daily budget€138€187
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikKillarney
Score6548
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm91 mm to 187 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
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Killarney
8
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
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
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). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikKillarney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
ORK · 74 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

MeasureDubrovnikKillarney
Official languageCroatianEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m50 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikKillarney
City population41,56214,412
Museums within 10 km71
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3219
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.