VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Manchester?

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.

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and 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.

DubrovnikManchester
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 49 points.49
DubrovnikManchester
Score7728
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4310
Coast distance0 km27 km
Water distance0 km27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 30 points.30
DubrovnikManchester
Score3868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 7 points.7
DubrovnikManchester
Score4942
Museums within 10 km1823
Museums within 2 km of centre1711
Share of museums within 2 km %9448
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 42 points.42
DubrovnikManchester
Score2062
Drinking venues within 4 km1281,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8677
Nightclubs within 4 km1382
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 31 points.31
DubrovnikManchester
Score536
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %417
Land share of disc %5199
Park area within 2 km6 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikManchester
Score2132
Tourist attractions within 2 km125
Park area within 2 km6 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 4 points.4
DubrovnikManchester
Score4448
Notable places within 2 km4861
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.26
DubrovnikManchester
Score8054
Price level global48.584.9
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikManchester
Score6554
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikManchester
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureDubrovnikManchester
Official languageCroatianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m38 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikManchester
City population41,562547,627
People per km²4,737
Museums within 10 km728
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3263
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. 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.