VacationSelector

Faro or Zadar?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Faro
47
match

Wins on places to eat and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

FaroZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 12 points.12
FaroZadar
Score6173
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km1349
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 19 points.19
FaroZadar
Score4425
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2211
Museums & heritage. Zadar leads by 11 points.11
FaroZadar
Score2233
Museums within 10 km98
Museums within 2 km of centre88
Share of museums within 2 km %89100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Zadar leads by 4 points.4
FaroZadar
Score2125
Drinking venues within 4 km143194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8672
Nightclubs within 4 km84
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 2 points.2
FaroZadar
Score5755
Protected land share 50 km %1112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4247
Park area within 2 km34 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 5 points.5
FaroZadar
Score3631
Tourist attractions within 2 km109
Park area within 2 km34 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
FaroZadar
Score2231
Notable places within 2 km1423
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
FaroZadar
Score7480
Price level global55.948.5
Daily budget€109€138
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 14 points.14
FaroZadar
Score8369
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months62
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFaroZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 0 m
€138-208
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 50 m
€132-174
ZAD · 10 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureFaroZadar
Official languagePortugueseCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroZadar
City population64,56070,779
People per km²319
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3417
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Faro or Zadar somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.