VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Ottawa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikOttawa
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km439
Coast distance0 km423 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 26 points.26
DubrovnikOttawa
Score3864
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1834
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikOttawa
Score4932
Museums within 10 km1815
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %9453
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 24 points.24
DubrovnikOttawa
Score2044
Drinking venues within 4 km128432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8670
Nightclubs within 4 km1335
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 36 points.36
DubrovnikOttawa
Score541
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 25 points.25
DubrovnikOttawa
Score2146
Tourist attractions within 2 km1211
Park area within 2 km6 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikOttawa
Score4450
Notable places within 2 km4871
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.26
DubrovnikOttawa
Score8054
Price level global48.584
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikOttawa
Score6553
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ottawa
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
Ottawa
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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikOttawa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureDubrovnikOttawa
Official languageCroatianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m70 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikOttawa
City population41,5621,017,449
People per km²366
Museums within 10 km720
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3262
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. 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.