Dubai calculators

Three of these give you two answers

The overstay fine, the tourist visa fee and the VAT refund are each published twice by UAE authorities, with different figures. ICP says an overstay costs AED 50 a day; GDRFA Dubai says AED 100 plus AED 200 for an out pass. The Federal Tax Authority describes its own refund as 85% less AED 4.80 in one place and 87% less AED 3.60 in another.

Every other calculator on the internet picks one and presents it as the answer. These print both, name the source of each, and say plainly that we cannot tell you which will be applied to you. That is not a limitation of the tool. It is the state of the published record, and hiding it would be the error. The rule we follow when official sources disagree.

All 22 calculators

• Dubai taxi fare calculatorWork out a Dubai taxi fare from the starting charge RTA publishes and the per-kilometre rate the operator publishes — with both sources named and the gaps stated.
• Dubai Salik toll calculatorSalik is charged per gate, at AED 6 in peak hours and AED 4 otherwise, and nothing between 01:00 and 06:00. Worked out from RTA's published tariff.
• Dubai metro fare calculatorEvery RTA nol single-journey fare, by card type and number of zones, multiplied out for as many journeys as you plan. Silver, Blue, Gold and Red ticket.
• nol pass break-even calculatorHow many journeys a Silver or Gold nol pass has to cover before it beats paying per journey — worked out from RTA's own published pass prices and single fares.
• Dubai hotel bill calculatorA Dubai room rate carries four charges, and the law says declared prices already include VAT. Two totals, because the published record does not support one.
• Dubai overstay fine calculatorTwo UAE authorities publish different overstay fines — AED 50 and AED 100 a day. This prints both totals, attributed, instead of guessing which applies.
• Dubai VAT refund calculatorThe Federal Tax Authority publishes two different descriptions of the same tourist VAT refund. This calculator works out both, side by side, on your purchase amount.
• Dubai cinema ticket calculatorDubai cinema ticket prices from Reel and Novo's own FAQs, multiplied for your party, with the 'from' prices flagged as floors rather than fares.
• Dubai parking fine checkerWhat each Dubai parking offence costs in Parkin's published tables — roadside and plots against multi-storey car parks, where one offence can differ by AED 850.
• Dubai currency converterThe dirham against 30 currencies, from the Central Bank of the UAE's own published rates and its fixed dollar peg — dated, and honest about the margin.
• Dubai child ticket age checkerPick an age and see which Dubai attractions charge the child rate and which charge full price — every band quoted from the operator's own published definition.
• Dubai height restriction checkerFour Dubai attractions publish a usable height rule and one of them publishes two different ones. Check a height against every published limit at once.
• Dubai tourist visa fee checkerThe same Dubai authority publishes AED 200 and AED 250 for the same 30-day visa, and disagrees with itself about which visas exist. Both lists, side by side.
• Dubai visa extension checkerGDRFA publishes two different extension fees and ICP a third. The number of extensions allowed differs too. All three, quoted, with no attempt to pick one.
• Dubai abra and ferry calculatorA creek crossing is AED 1 and a lake ride is AED 75, both published by RTA. Pick a route and a party size and see what the operator publishes.
• Dubai annual pass break-even calculatorWhether a Dubai attraction pass beats paying per visit, from the operator's own two figures — and the four passes where the operator publishes only one of them.
• Dubai waterpark cost calculatorWhat a Dubai waterpark day costs for your party, from each operator's own figures, including the VAT quoted separately and the park that publishes nothing.
• Dubai theme park ticket calculatorDubai theme park tickets multiplied for your party, from the operator's own pages, with the online and gate prices shown side by side rather than one picked.
• Dubai family ticket calculatorWhat a family pays at Dubai attractions, from each operator's own adult and child figures — and the ones that publish no child price to use.
• DXB airport transfer calculatorWhat a taxi from Dubai airport costs, with RTA's starting fare and the one Dubai Airports contradicts it with, shown side by side, and the metro beside both.
• Yas Island ticket calculatorWhat a group pays at Ferrari World, Warner Bros. World, Yas Waterworld or SeaWorld, from each operator's own published figures rather than a reseller's.
• Dubai mall parking calculatorWhat parking costs at 10 Dubai malls for a stay of 1 to 12 hours, by day of the week, from each mall's or Parkin's published tariff.

Why these work without JavaScript

This site runs no script at all, and its security policy forbids any. So every combination is worked out when the page is built and written into the HTML; the buttons are labels attached to hidden radio inputs, and CSS reveals the one you selected. Nothing is computed in your browser.

That is not a compromise, it is the better design for a reference site. A search engine does not run a calculator, so a scripted one is an empty page to it — while every result on these pages is in the document, readable by anyone and anything that opens it, including with scripting disabled entirely.

What we will not calculate

We do not convert currency into a total, because exchange rates move and a converted price presented as a price is a fiction with a shelf life. We do not estimate a figure an operator has not published in order to complete a sum — where an input is missing, the calculator says so instead of filling the gap. And we use no reseller price anywhere, for the reason set out in the editorial policy: a reseller is not a source.

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