VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Palermo?

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.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

DubrovnikPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikPalermo
Score7767
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km4313
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikPalermo
Score3850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1813
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikPalermo
Score4950
Museums within 10 km1832
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %9481
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 33 points.33
DubrovnikPalermo
Score2053
Drinking venues within 4 km128799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8664
Nightclubs within 4 km1316
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 31 points.31
DubrovnikPalermo
Score536
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5145
Park area within 2 km6 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 20 points.20
DubrovnikPalermo
Score2141
Tourist attractions within 2 km1216
Park area within 2 km6 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 13 points.13
DubrovnikPalermo
Score4457
Notable places within 2 km48104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikPalermo
Score8068
Price level global48.564.9
Daily budget€138€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikPalermo
Score6577
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

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). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€59-120
1 stop
TGD · 99 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 5 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€114-166
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureDubrovnikPalermo
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 m14 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikPalermo
City population41,562630,167
People per km²3,924
Museums within 10 km742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3233
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.