VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Sydney?

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.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

DubrovnikSydney
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikSydney
Score7760
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km43160
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 40 points.40
DubrovnikSydney
Score3878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2062,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1831
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 2 points.2
DubrovnikSydney
Score4951
Museums within 10 km1844
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %9445
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 55 points.55
DubrovnikSydney
Score2075
Drinking venues within 4 km1282,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1101,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8669
Nightclubs within 4 km13120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 53 points.53
DubrovnikSydney
Score558
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5152
Park area within 2 km6 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 43 points.43
DubrovnikSydney
Score2164
Tourist attractions within 2 km1237
Park area within 2 km6 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 16 points.16
DubrovnikSydney
Score4460
Notable places within 2 km48123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 30 points.30
DubrovnikSydney
Score8050
Price level global48.590.2
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 16 points.16
DubrovnikSydney
Score6581
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikSydney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureDubrovnikSydney
Official languageCroatianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikSydney
City population41,5625,450,496
People per km²449
Museums within 10 km738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3279
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.