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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Cork 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 Cork for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Cork 25, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Zadar 45: Cork leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Zadar 38: Cork leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Cork and Zadar are level on 58.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Zadar 27: Cork leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Zadar 28: Cork leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Zadar 35: Zadar leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Zadar.

Your match

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

Cork
45match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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

Cork's station stands 153 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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkZadar
Official languageEnglish, IrishCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m5 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkZadar
City population222,33370,779
People per km²5,961-
Museums within 10 km51
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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. 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.