VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Zadar?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

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

Zadar
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

EdinburghZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghZadar
Score5573
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2049
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 45 points.45
EdinburghZadar
Score7025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 24 points.24
EdinburghZadar
Score5733
Museums within 10 km308
Museums within 2 km of centre228
Share of museums within 2 km %73100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 39 points.39
EdinburghZadar
Score6425
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7472
Nightclubs within 4 km654
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 20 points.20
EdinburghZadar
Score3555
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8547
Park area within 2 km166 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 41 points.41
EdinburghZadar
Score7231
Tourist attractions within 2 km879
Park area within 2 km166 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 29 points.29
EdinburghZadar
Score6031
Notable places within 2 km12623
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 26 points.26
EdinburghZadar
Score5480
Price level global84.948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghZadar
Score5169
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghZadar
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€132-174
ZAD · 10 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureEdinburghZadar
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m5 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghZadar
City population488,05070,779
People per km²1,884
Museums within 10 km321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre7817
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.