VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Salzburg?

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, 2 points apart

Dubrovnik
44
match

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

Salzburg
42
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.

DubrovnikSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km439
Coast distance0 km653 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score3849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1823
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score4960
Museums within 10 km1842
Museums within 2 km of centre1727
Share of museums within 2 km %9464
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score2036
Drinking venues within 4 km128294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8682
Nightclubs within 4 km1316
Nature & day trips. Salzburg leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score527
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 27 points.27
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score2148
Tourist attractions within 2 km1217
Park area within 2 km6 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 2 points.2
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score4446
Notable places within 2 km4854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 21 points.21
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score8059
Price level global48.576.9
Daily budget€138€160
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikSalzburg
Score6554
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikSalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€183-262
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
1 h 30 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureDubrovnikSalzburg
Official languageCroatianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation10 m424 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikSalzburg
City population41,562155,021
People per km²2,360
Museums within 10 km738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre3250
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. 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.