VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or New York?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

DubrovnikNew York
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 13 points.13
DubrovnikNew York
Score7764
Swim season months53
Beaches 10 km4317
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 57 points.57
DubrovnikNew York
Score3895
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2066,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1838
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikNew York
Score4960
Museums within 10 km18119
Museums within 2 km of centre1731
Share of museums within 2 km %9426
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. New York leads by 69 points.69
DubrovnikNew York
Score2089
Drinking venues within 4 km1284,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1102,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8648
Nightclubs within 4 km13192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 34 points.34
DubrovnikNew York
Score539
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5169
Park area within 2 km6 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 51 points.51
DubrovnikNew York
Score2172
Tourist attractions within 2 km1237
Park area within 2 km6 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. New York leads by 30 points.30
DubrovnikNew York
Score4474
Notable places within 2 km48268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 37 points.37
DubrovnikNew York
Score8043
Price level global48.5100
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 7 points.7
DubrovnikNew York
Score6558
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
New York
No sunshine record

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 14 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

MeasureDubrovnikNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikNew York
City population41,5628,804,190
People per km²7,256
Museums within 10 km7157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre32132
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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. 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.