VacationSelector

Bangkok or Zadar?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BangkokZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 33 points.33
BangkokZadar
Score4073
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km049
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 58 points.58
BangkokZadar
Score8325
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2611
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokZadar
Score4633
Museums within 10 km1038
Museums within 2 km of centre308
Share of museums within 2 km %29100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 58 points.58
BangkokZadar
Score8325
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4172
Nightclubs within 4 km724
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 4 points.4
BangkokZadar
Score5155
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8347
Park area within 2 km42 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 26 points.26
BangkokZadar
Score5731
Tourist attractions within 2 km319
Park area within 2 km42 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 17 points.17
BangkokZadar
Score4831
Notable places within 2 km6223
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokZadar
Score9380
Price level global29.748.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
BangkokZadar
Score5669
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokZadar
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
OsloOSL, TRF
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBangkokZadar
Official languageThaiCroatian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m5 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokZadar
City population5,676,64870,779
People per km²3,619
Museums within 10 km591
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9117
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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). 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. 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. 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.