September–October
Wk 39–41
The quietest stretch among this region's best weather weeks: crowd level around 19 out of 100, weather comfort near 62.
- Crowd level
- 9–36
- Comfort
- 57–66
Croatia · Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik: an old town behind 1,940 metres of wall
Out of a refuge on a rock grew the Republic of Ragusa, which abolished slavery in 1416 as the first city state in Europe and in 1776 was the first state in the world to recognise the United States. Its old town has stood on the World Heritage list since 1979.
Busiest week
AugustCrowd level 100
Wk 32 · 6,125,245 overnight stays
Quietest weeks
JanuaryCrowd level 0
Wk 1–3 · measured against the region's own year, not against other regions
Sweet spot
September–OctoberCrowd level 9–36
Wk 39–41 · quietest while the weather still holds
Warmest month
23 °CComfort 83
July · around 55 mm of rain in the month
The overnight-stay figures come from a statistical area that this destination shares with Dalmatien, Istrien and Kvarner Bucht. They cover the whole area, not Dubrovnik on its own.
Dubrovnik in brief
Dubrovnik is a city on the Adriatic coast in southern Croatia, Ragusium in Latin and Ragusa in Italian. The old town was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in 1979; it lies behind 1,940 metres of city wall at the foot of the 412-metre Srđ. Out of the medieval community grew the Republic of Ragusa, whose citizens elected a city council and a senate and which abolished slavery in 1416 as the first city state in Europe. The city territory takes in the Elaphiti Islands and the island of Lokrum.
When is Dubrovnik busy, when is it quiet?
Click a week. The panel on the right explains why it is busy or quiet.
Weather profile
Weather comfort is an absolute scale (0 = poor, 100 = ideal) and a second axis next to the season-relative crowd level.
JanuaryØ 0
FebruaryØ 1
MarchØ 2
AprilØ 9
MayØ 20
JuneØ 49
JulyØ 90
AugustØ 94
SeptemberØ 40
OctoberØ 10
NovemberØ 2
DecemberØ 1
Colour = season-relative crowd levelBar = weather comfort (Sun & warmth), absolute 0–100
Why this week?
September · Wk 39
Crowd level36/100 · moderate
quietbusy
Weather comfort28/100 · Sun & warmth
+36 % versus the region's annual average.
- Contributing months
- September (90 %) · October (10 %)
- Overnight stays/week
- 2,254,182
- Main source markets
- Germany (27 %) · Croatia (12 %) · Slovenia (10 %) · 90% of guests modelled
- Region range
- 71,451–6,125,245 (avg 1,655,941)
- Base years
- 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (excluding 2020, 2021)
v1: Crowd-Score aus der Eurostat-Basisschicht (Übernachtungen), moduliert vom Schulferien-Druck der Quellmärkte, region-spezifisch gewichtet mit dem Quellland-Mix. Season-relativ zur Region. Event-Schichten folgen.
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The travel year in Dubrovnik, month by month
The year as a table to read and to cite: crowd level for every month, plus weather comfort and temperature from the climate normals.
| Month | Crowd level0–100, season-relative | Weather comfort0–100, profile “mild” | Avg temperature |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 12 | 1 °C |
| February | 1 | 16 | 4 °C |
| March | 2 | 27 | 7 °C |
| April | 9 | 45 | 11 °C |
| May | 20 | 59 | 15 °C |
| June | 49 | 80 | 21 °C |
| July | 90 | 83 | 23 °C |
| August | 94 | 82 | 23 °C |
| September | 40 | 71 | 17 °C |
| October | 10 | 54 | 13 °C |
| November | 2 | 27 | 7 °C |
| December | 1 | 14 | 3 °C |
The crowd level is season-relative: 100 is the annual peak of Dubrovnik itself, not the busiest destination in Europe. The figures say when it is quiet here — not where it is quieter than elsewhere.
Weather comfort 0–100 from the climate normals, profile “mild” – the same profile as the recommendation above, not the selection in the calendar. A “–” means the data for that month is missing.
Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026
The windows worth catching
Three windows from the model: first whether the weather suits the region, then how busy it gets.
May
Wk 20–22
A second option, also with usable weather: crowd level around 22, weather comfort near 64.
- Crowd level
- 18–30
- Comfort
- 57–70
August
Wk 31–33
The region's peak: crowd level around 99 out of 100. Only if the dates are fixed.
- Crowd level
- 97–100
- Comfort
- 82–83
Dubrovnik compared with Europe
How full the accommodation is here, measured against Europe – on the only measure on which two travel regions can be compared.
- Bed occupancy in Dubrovnik
- 21.8
- European median
- 23.1
per cent of bed places, annual mean
per cent of bed places, annual mean
Furthest from the median: January, at <0.1× the value. Closest to the median: September, at 1.2× the value.
Mean across 12 months, weighted by their weeks. This occupancy compares travel regions with one another. The crowding in the table above compares Dubrovnik with itself. The two measures are never combined.
Climate through the year
Average temperature with day/night range and precipitation across the twelve months.
- Avg temperature
- Day/night range
- Precipitation
| Month | Avg temperature (°C) | Day avg (°C) | Night avg (°C) | Precipitation (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 0 | 1 | -1 | 117 |
| Feb | 2 | 4 | 1 | 128 |
| Mar | 5 | 7 | 3 | 127 |
| Apr | 8 | 11 | 6 | 87 |
| May | 12 | 15 | 10 | 131 |
| Jun | 18 | 21 | 16 | 67 |
| Jul | 20 | 23 | 18 | 55 |
| Aug | 20 | 23 | 17 | 68 |
| Sep | 15 | 17 | 13 | 132 |
| Oct | 11 | 13 | 9 | 131 |
| Nov | 6 | 7 | 5 | 195 |
| Dec | 2 | 3 | 1 | 143 |
The band shows mean daytime to nighttime temperature. Precipitation shown as monthly total (mm). Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
How sunny?
How much sun a typical day delivers, month by month, expressed as hours of full midday sun.
Sunny
≈ 4.0 h of full midday sun per day, annual average
Jun
Sunniest month
| Month | ≈ h of full midday sun per day |
|---|---|
| Jan | 1.6 |
| Feb | 2.3 |
| Mar | 3.9 |
| Apr | 5.2 |
| May | 5.7 |
| Jun | 6.7 |
| Jul | 6.7 |
| Aug | 5.8 |
| Sep | 4.2 |
| Oct | 2.9 |
| Nov | 1.6 |
| Dec | 1.3 |
Basis: mean daily solar irradiance in kWh/m²/day; 1 kWh/m² is roughly one hour of full midday sun (1,000 W/m²). Not the same as measured sunshine duration. Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
Directly reachable from
Destination airports of Dubrovnik and every European departure airport with a direct connection to them.
Destination airports
Select a destination airport to see the direct departure airports.
“Directly reachable” means a direct connection exists according to our sources. We do not show a live timetable. Availability and flight days can vary by season and airline.
Ski areas in Dubrovnik
Mapped ski areas in this region with slope kilometres, lifts and elevation, plus the long-term snow average from our climate data.
- Ski areas
- 2
- Slopes in total
- 11 km
- Lifts
- 9
- Highest point
- 1,354 m
On a long-term average, February sees the most snow: 6 cm mean snow depth across the region.
| Ski area | Slopes | Lifts | Elevation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platak | 8.99 km | 7 | 1,085–1,354 m270 m vertical drop |
| Rudnik Tršće | 1.6 km | 2 | 830–1,019 m189 m vertical drop |
Slope, lift and elevation figures come from open mapping and are complete to varying degrees. “Not available” means not mapped, not “does not exist”. Opening hours and season are not included. Snow figures are long-term averages for the whole region, not snow depth on the mountain and not a forecast.
Dubrovnik in detail
Location and shape
The city lies in southern Croatia on the southern slopes of the Dinaric range, at the foot of the 412-metre Srđ. Some eleven kilometres to the north Bosnia and Herzegovina begins, and Montenegro lies roughly 38 kilometres to the south; the city territory takes in the Elaphiti Islands and the island of Lokrum. Dubrovnik is the seat of the Dubrovnik-Neretva county and of the Catholic diocese; at the 2021 census the city with all 32 of its districts had 41,562 inhabitants. That it is an exclave today goes back to the Peace of Passarowitz, by which the Ottomans gained access to the Adriatic between Neum and Klek in 1718; that stretch of coast belongs to Bosnia and Herzegovina today.
From rock to city
An Illyrian settlement stood on the rock in the third century BC; around 550/560 it was fortified under Justinian I and a basilica of 31 by 18 metres was built. At the earliest in the early seventh century the inhabitants of the destroyed Epidaurum, today's Cavtat, moved across to the fortified island. In the twelfth century the channel between the mainland and the island was filled in; the main street Stradun, also called the Placa, runs along that seam today. Both origins sit in the name: the Slavic dubrava for oak grove and the Romance Ragusa, which goes back to the small island of the first settlement.
The Republic of Ragusa
From 1205 to 1358 the city stood under Venice, recognised the overlordship of the Croatian-Hungarian kings after the Peace of Zadar and paid them tribute until their defeat at Mohács in 1526; from 1420 delegations carried yearly tribute to the Ottomans, latterly 12,500 ducats, until the Peace of Passarowitz in 1718. As an independent republic the citizens elected a city council and a senate; the archbishopric had been founded as early as 980, and in the sixteenth century the merchant fleet numbered 160 ships. In 1416 the republic abolished slavery as the first city state in Europe and banned the slave trade by law; from 1377 arriving travellers had to spend 30, later 40 days in quarantine, the first such rule in Europe, for which the lazarettos in Ploče were built between 1627 and 1648. In 1776 Dubrovnik was the first state in the world to recognise the independence of the United States; in the eighteenth century more than 85 consulates stood in the city.
Earthquake, walls, palaces
The earthquake of 1667 destroyed large parts of the city; the Stradun was rebuilt afterwards uniformly, to plans and by order of the senate. The city walls are 1,940 metres long, three to six metres wide and walkable end to end; west of them the fortress of Lovrijenac stands on a 37-metre rock, first mentioned in 1301 and carrying the inscription „Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro“, and to the east stands the fortress of Revelin from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Rector's Palace of 1435 was the seat of the republic's administration and gained Baroque elements after the earthquake; the Sponza Palace of 1516 to 1522 survived it and houses the state archive today. In the fourteenth-century Franciscan monastery lies the grave of the poet Ivan Gundulić, and there stands a pharmacy of 1317, one of the oldest in Europe.
After the republic
French soldiers occupied the city in 1806, and in 1808 Marshal Marmont abolished the republic; from 1809 Dubrovnik belonged as part of the Département Raguse to the Illyrian Provinces, and after the Congress of Vienna to the crown land of Dalmatia. In the Croatian war the city was besieged and shelled for nine months from June 1991; according to the Croatian Red Cross 114 civilians lost their lives, and the material damage has since been almost entirely repaired.
Blaise, gardens, filming locations
The patron saint is St Blaise; his city feast on 3 February has been kept without interruption since the tenth century and has stood since 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Since 1950 the summer festival has run in July and August, on open-air stages and in the interiors of palaces, churches and monasteries, among them the fortress of Lovrijenac. The Trsteno Arboretum near the city was laid out around 1492 and is the oldest in the world; the island of Lokrum, first mentioned in 1023 as the site of an abbey, became a nature reserve in 1963 and a special forest reserve in 1976. For the series Game of Thrones the fortress of Lovrijenac, the Pile Gate and parts of the city fortifications served as settings, among others, and single scenes of Star Wars Episode VIII were shot here as well.
How it differs from the other Adriatic destinations
The four Croatian destinations cut the same coast differently: Dubrovnik is a city that counted 41,562 inhabitants with all its districts in 2021, Istria a peninsula of some 3,500 square kilometres, the Kvarner a sea area of four stretches of water and Dalmatia a coastland of 11,960 square kilometres, largely in Croatia. Dubrovnik lies in Dalmatia, and the two names denote areas of different orders of magnitude: here a city with 32 districts, the Elaphiti Islands and Lokrum, there a historical landscape from the island of Pag to beyond the Bay of Kotor with around 942 islands, islets, cliffs and rocks. The city is the seat of the Dubrovnik-Neretva county, the smallest of the four Dalmatian counties at 1,782 square kilometres. The Republic of Ragusa joins the two levels: the Peace of Karlowitz gave Dalmatia to Venice in 1699 and expressly excepted the republic, and its walls of Ston on the Pelješac peninsula originally ran more than seven kilometres, while the city's own old-town wall measures 1,940 metres. The beginning is shared as well: Epidauros was among the Greek colonies of Dalmatia, and after their city was destroyed its inhabitants moved across to the fortified island on which Dubrovnik's first settlement stood. In Istria the amphitheatre, the temple of Augustus and the Arch of the Sergii stand at Pula, and on the Kvarner lies Rijeka with its port.
Frequently asked questions about the best time to visit Dubrovnik
Short answers on timing, weather and getting there, all from the data on this page.
When is the best time to visit Dubrovnik?
- The best time to visit Dubrovnik is September–October (Wk 39–41): it is the quietest stretch among the region's best weather weeks – crowd level around 19 out of 100, weather comfort about 62 out of 100.
When is Dubrovnik quietest?
- January (Wk 1–3) is the quietest time in Dubrovnik. Crowd levels there sit at 0 out of 100, the lowest across the year.
When is Dubrovnik busiest?
- Dubrovnik is busiest in August (Wk 32) with around 6,125,245 overnight stays in the peak week.
What is the weather like in Dubrovnik and when is it warmest?
- It is warmest in Dubrovnik in July with an average of 23 °C and around 55 mm of rain in the month.
When is there the most snow in Dubrovnik and when are ski conditions best?
- Dubrovnik has the most snow in February with an average of around 6 cm. Those are the most reliable weeks for winter sports.
When is Dubrovnik least busy while still having good snow?
- The best time for quiet winter sports in Dubrovnik is January: with still around 6 cm of snow, the crowd level of about 0 out of 100 is below peak season.
How do you get to Dubrovnik?
- Dubrovnik is reachable via 6 destination airports with direct flights, including Dubrovnik Airport (DBV), Split Airport (SPU) and Zadar Airport (ZAD).
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Sources and data vintages
Every provenance note on this page, collected in one place.
- Cover photo
- Photo by Spencer Davis on Unsplash
- Cover video
- Video by Luciann Photography on Pexels
- Crowding figures
- Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026. v1 approximation, calculated from Eurostat overnight stays. Day tourism and cruises (Venice, Dubrovnik …) are still missing, so we show these destinations as quieter than they are. The crowd score is a model-based forecast, not a measurement.
- Climate data
- Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2025.
- Reachability
Data sources: direct connections from Wikipedia (“Airlines and destinations”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, aggregated and modified by us), cross-checked with Eurostat, Destatis and the UK Civil Aviation Authority; airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain). The derived connection data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Data as of: September 2026
- Ski areas
Data sources: ski areas from OpenSkiMap, based on OpenStreetMap, licensed under ODbL 1.0; snow depths from ERA5-Land (Copernicus Climate Change Service).
- Region text
- Text by HolidayHub, written from Wikivoyage „Dubrovnik“ (1793080) · Wikipedia „Dubrovnik“ (268340818) · Wikidata Q1722. Wikivoyage and Wikipedia are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikidata CC0.
- Data basis
- All figures are approximations derived from open data (crowd level from Eurostat overnight stays, climate from Copernicus/ERA5-Land), not measurements.