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The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Durban or Jerusalem?

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 Durban for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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. Durban 80, Jerusalem 40: Durban leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Jerusalem 38: Durban leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Jerusalem 60: Durban leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Jerusalem 80: Jerusalem leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Jerusalem 52: Durban leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Jerusalem 55: Jerusalem leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Jerusalem 48: Jerusalem leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Jerusalem 20: Durban leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban and Jerusalem are level on 40.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Jerusalem 42: Jerusalem leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Jerusalem.

Your match

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

Durban
49match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Jerusalem
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °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

Jerusalem 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanJerusalem
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageHebrew
CurrencyRand (ZAR)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation22 m754 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanJerusalem
City population595,0611,050,151
People per km²2,6348,374
Museums within 10 km169
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 months

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.