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Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Dubrovnik or Melbourne?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’s own page.

Choose Melbourne for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik 74, Melbourne 50: Dubrovnik leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Dubrovnik 47, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Dubrovnik 72, Melbourne 57: Dubrovnik leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Dubrovnik 37, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dubrovnik and Melbourne are level on 70.
Day trips. Dubrovnik 66, Melbourne 62: Dubrovnik leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Dubrovnik 50, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Dubrovnik 60, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Dubrovnik 25, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Dubrovnik 28, Melbourne 31: Melbourne leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dubrovnik 25, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dubrovnik 32, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dubrovnik and Melbourne.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Dubrovnik has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDubrovnikMelbourne
Official languageCroatianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m31 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikMelbourne
City population41,5625,350,705
People per km²-535
Museums within 10 km743
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.