VacationSelector

Aarhus or Zadar?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

AarhusZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 14 points.14
AarhusZadar
Score5973
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2849
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 28 points.28
AarhusZadar
Score5325
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2611
Museums & heritage. Aarhus leads by 5 points.5
AarhusZadar
Score3833
Museums within 10 km268
Museums within 2 km of centre208
Share of museums within 2 km %77100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 15 points.15
AarhusZadar
Score4025
Drinking venues within 4 km382194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8672
Nightclubs within 4 km154
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 27 points.27
AarhusZadar
Score2855
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6847
Park area within 2 km72 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus leads by 2 points.2
AarhusZadar
Score3331
Tourist attractions within 2 km69
Park area within 2 km72 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Aarhus leads by 6 points.6
AarhusZadar
Score3731
Notable places within 2 km3323
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 28 points.28
AarhusZadar
Score5280
Price level global87.848.5
Daily budget€214€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 16 points.16
AarhusZadar
Score5369
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
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
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusZadar
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 10 m
€129-176
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureAarhusZadar
Official languageDanishCroatian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m5 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusZadar
City population290,59870,779
People per km²3,193
Museums within 10 km171
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3717
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. 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.