VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Lisbon?

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.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
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.

DubrovnikLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 20 points.20
DubrovnikLisbon
Score7757
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4324
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 42 points.42
DubrovnikLisbon
Score3880
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2062,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1831
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 21 points.21
DubrovnikLisbon
Score4970
Museums within 10 km18124
Museums within 2 km of centre1754
Share of museums within 2 km %9444
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 45 points.45
DubrovnikLisbon
Score2065
Drinking venues within 4 km1281,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8678
Nightclubs within 4 km1365
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 51 points.51
DubrovnikLisbon
Score556
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5154
Park area within 2 km6 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 48 points.48
DubrovnikLisbon
Score2169
Tourist attractions within 2 km1282
Park area within 2 km6 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikLisbon
Score4466
Notable places within 2 km48169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikLisbon
Score8074
Price level global48.555.9
Daily budget€138€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 13 points.13
DubrovnikLisbon
Score6578
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months04
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lisbon
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
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
€126-176
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 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

MeasureDubrovnikLisbon
Official languageCroatianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m100 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikLisbon
City population41,562545,796
People per km²5,453
Museums within 10 km778
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre32106
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.