VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Kyoto?

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.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

DubrovnikKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 60 points.60
DubrovnikKyoto
Score7717
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 46 points.46
DubrovnikKyoto
Score3884
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2065,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1822
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 23 points.23
DubrovnikKyoto
Score4972
Museums within 10 km18132
Museums within 2 km of centre1751
Share of museums within 2 km %9439
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 60 points.60
DubrovnikKyoto
Score2080
Drinking venues within 4 km1283,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1102,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8673
Nightclubs within 4 km1326
Nature & day trips. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikKyoto
Score522
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %42
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 45 points.45
DubrovnikKyoto
Score2166
Tourist attractions within 2 km1262
Park area within 2 km6 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 8 points.8
DubrovnikKyoto
Score4452
Notable places within 2 km4879
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikKyoto
Score8070
Price level global48.562.4
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 3 points.3
DubrovnikKyoto
Score6562
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm40 mm to 232 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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

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). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikKyoto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 16 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 10 m
€118-239
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 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

MeasureDubrovnikKyoto
Official languageCroatianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m51 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikKyoto
City population41,5621,463,723
People per km²1,768
Museums within 10 km776
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre3289
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. 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.