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Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Dubrovnik or Miami Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Dubrovnik 47, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Dubrovnik 72, Miami Beach 52: Dubrovnik leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Dubrovnik 37, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dubrovnik 70, Miami Beach 52: Dubrovnik leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Dubrovnik 66, Miami Beach 55: Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Dubrovnik 50, Miami Beach 60: Miami Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Dubrovnik 60, Miami Beach 58: Dubrovnik leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Dubrovnik 25, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Dubrovnik 28, Miami Beach 20: Dubrovnik leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dubrovnik 25, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dubrovnik 32, Miami Beach 48: Miami Beach leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dubrovnik and Miami Beach.

Your match

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

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife 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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDubrovnikMiami Beach
Official languageCroatian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikMiami Beach
City population41,56282,890
People per km²-2,109
Museums within 10 km714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.