VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Milan?

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.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
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.

DubrovnikMilan
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikMilan
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance0 km120 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 32 points.32
DubrovnikMilan
Score3870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1820
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 25 points.25
DubrovnikMilan
Score4974
Museums within 10 km1887
Museums within 2 km of centre1755
Share of museums within 2 km %9463
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Milan leads by 55 points.55
DubrovnikMilan
Score2075
Drinking venues within 4 km1282,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8643
Nightclubs within 4 km1370
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 60 points.60
DubrovnikMilan
Score565
Protected land share 50 km %430
Landscape blanket share 50 km %411
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 56 points.56
DubrovnikMilan
Score2177
Tourist attractions within 2 km1276
Park area within 2 km6 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 30 points.30
DubrovnikMilan
Score4474
Notable places within 2 km48266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikMilan
Score8068
Price level global48.564.9
Daily budget€138€155
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikMilan
Score6564
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BGY · 46 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 40 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
3 h 50 m
€119-204
MXP · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
AlmatyALA
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 99 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

MeasureDubrovnikMilan
Official languageCroatianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m138 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikMilan
City population41,5621,354,196
People per km²7,453
Museums within 10 km787
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre3279
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.