VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 40 points.40
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score7737
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4322
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 34 points.34
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score3872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1846
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score4960
Museums within 10 km1841
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %9449
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 29 points.29
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score2049
Drinking venues within 4 km128542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8670
Nightclubs within 4 km1340
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score542
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5179
Park area within 2 km6 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 41 points.41
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score2162
Tourist attractions within 2 km1227
Park area within 2 km6 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 7 points.7
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score4451
Notable places within 2 km4874
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score8058
Price level global48.579.2
Daily budget€138€181
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.9
DubrovnikRotterdam
Score6556
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikRotterdam
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€116-147
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€102-184
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureDubrovnikRotterdam
Official languageCroatianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikRotterdam
City population41,562664,311
People per km²2,080
Museums within 10 km740
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre3277
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.