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Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea
The Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego
San DiegoThe Botanical Building, Balboa Park

Photos: Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped; San Diego by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Dubrovnik or San Diego?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’s own page.

Choose San Diego for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on San Diego’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik 74, San Diego 72: Dubrovnik leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Dubrovnik 47, San Diego 62: San Diego leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Dubrovnik 72, San Diego 50: Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Dubrovnik 37, San Diego 48: San Diego leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dubrovnik 70, San Diego 77: San Diego leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Dubrovnik 66, San Diego 60: Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Dubrovnik 50, San Diego 96: San Diego leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Dubrovnik 60, San Diego 38: Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Dubrovnik 25, San Diego 44: San Diego leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Dubrovnik 28, San Diego 26: Dubrovnik leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dubrovnik 25, San Diego 56: San Diego leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dubrovnik 32, San Diego 45: San Diego leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dubrovnik and San Diego.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

San Diego
Best match
56match

Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

San Diego in July

24 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Dubrovnik has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDubrovnikSan Diego
Official languageCroatian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m129 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikSan Diego
City population41,5621,386,932
People per km²-1,438
Museums within 10 km726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.