VacationSelector

Dublin or Zadar?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

DublinZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 24 points.24
DublinZadar
Score4973
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1149
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 45 points.45
DublinZadar
Score7025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3711
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 22 points.22
DublinZadar
Score5533
Museums within 10 km478
Museums within 2 km of centre378
Share of museums within 2 km %79100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 39 points.39
DublinZadar
Score6425
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7572
Nightclubs within 4 km404
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 29 points.29
DublinZadar
Score2655
Protected land share 50 km %312
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6247
Park area within 2 km43 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 23 points.23
DublinZadar
Score5431
Tourist attractions within 2 km419
Park area within 2 km43 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 31 points.31
DublinZadar
Score6231
Notable places within 2 km14123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 23 points.23
DublinZadar
Score5780
Price level global80.248.5
Daily budget€187€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 15 points.15
DublinZadar
Score5469
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€200-272
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€53-95
DUB · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureDublinZadar
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
Elevation20 m5 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinZadar
City population592,71370,779
People per km²5,154
Museums within 10 km401
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7417
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.