VacationSelector

Bruges or Zadar?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BrugesZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 65 points.65
BrugesZadar
Score873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km149
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 32 points.32
BrugesZadar
Score5725
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 24 points.24
BrugesZadar
Score5733
Museums within 10 km308
Museums within 2 km of centre248
Share of museums within 2 km %80100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 9 points.9
BrugesZadar
Score3425
Drinking venues within 4 km292194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8072
Nightclubs within 4 km84
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 29 points.29
BrugesZadar
Score2655
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6547
Park area within 2 km59 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 29 points.29
BrugesZadar
Score6031
Tourist attractions within 2 km529
Park area within 2 km59 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bruges leads by 9 points.9
BrugesZadar
Score4031
Notable places within 2 km4023
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 20 points.20
BrugesZadar
Score6080
Price level global76.248.5
Daily budget€180€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
BrugesZadar
Score5669
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months12
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesZadar
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 0 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBrugesZadar
Official languageFrench, German, DutchCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m5 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesZadar
City population118,50970,779
People per km²840
Museums within 10 km381
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5117
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.