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Dubrovnik or Maastricht?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
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.

DubrovnikMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km436
Coast distance0 km118 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score3848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1822
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score4953
Museums within 10 km1823
Museums within 2 km of centre1713
Share of museums within 2 km %9457
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score2030
Drinking venues within 4 km128223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8682
Nightclubs within 4 km1313
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 32 points.32
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score537
Protected land share 50 km %419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %411
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 25 points.25
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score2146
Tourist attractions within 2 km1215
Park area within 2 km6 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 8 points.8
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score4436
Notable places within 2 km4832
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score8058
Price level global48.579.2
Daily budget€138€181
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikMaastricht
Score6559
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
CRL · 97 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€120-150
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 20 m
€103-174
1 stop
TGD · 99 km
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 40 m
€86-130
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureDubrovnikMaastricht
Official languageCroatianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation10 m49 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikMaastricht
City population41,562120,227
People per km²2,000
Museums within 10 km721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre3233
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.