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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Amman or Zadar?

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 Amman for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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. Amman 22, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Zadar 45: Amman leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Zadar 38: Zadar leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Zadar 70: Amman leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Zadar 27: Amman leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Zadar 52: Amman leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Zadar 35: Amman leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Zadar.

Your match

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

Amman
45match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Zadar 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. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanZadar
Official languageArabicCroatian
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation776 m5 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanZadar
City population4,007,52670,779
People per km²2,385-
Museums within 10 km81
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.