VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Porto?

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.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

DubrovnikPorto
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikPorto
Score7760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4352
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 30 points.30
DubrovnikPorto
Score3868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1827
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikPorto
Score4971
Museums within 10 km18101
Museums within 2 km of centre1757
Share of museums within 2 km %9456
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Porto leads by 38 points.38
DubrovnikPorto
Score2058
Drinking venues within 4 km128900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8663
Nightclubs within 4 km1338
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 28 points.28
DubrovnikPorto
Score533
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5161
Park area within 2 km6 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 44 points.44
DubrovnikPorto
Score2165
Tourist attractions within 2 km12122
Park area within 2 km6 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikPorto
Score4454
Notable places within 2 km4885
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikPorto
Score8074
Price level global48.555.9
Daily budget€138€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikPorto
Score6571
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikPorto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
3 h 10 m
€193-281
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 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

MeasureDubrovnikPorto
Official languageCroatianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m104 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikPorto
City population41,562231,800
People per km²5,599
Museums within 10 km742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre3270
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.