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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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. Arequipa 8, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Zadar 45: Arequipa leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Zadar 55: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Zadar 38: Zadar leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Zadar 27: Arequipa leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Zadar 52: Arequipa leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Zadar 35: Zadar leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Zadar.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches 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.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaZadar
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaCroatian
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m5 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaZadar
City population1,008,29070,779
People per km²1,551-
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.