VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

DubrovnikLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 4 points.4
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score7773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km4332
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubrovnik leads by 7 points.7
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score3831
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1811
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 7 points.7
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score4942
Museums within 10 km1815
Museums within 2 km of centre1710
Share of museums within 2 km %9467
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. La Spezia leads by 4 points.4
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score2024
Drinking venues within 4 km128208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8685
Nightclubs within 4 km131
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 47 points.47
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score552
Protected land share 50 km %413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5151
Park area within 2 km6 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Dubrovnik leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score2120
Tourist attractions within 2 km123
Park area within 2 km6 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 37 points.37
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score447
Notable places within 2 km486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score8068
Price level global48.564.9
Daily budget€138€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 5 points.5
DubrovnikLa Spezia
Score6570
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 115 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 25 m
no fares
TGD · 99 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 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

MeasureDubrovnikLa Spezia
Official languageCroatianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikLa Spezia
City population41,56292,119
People per km²1,792
Museums within 10 km712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3222
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. 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.