VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Zagreb?

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

Your match

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

FrankfurtZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Frankfurt and Zagreb are level on 0.
FrankfurtZagreb
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km48
Coast distance327 km117 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 18 points.18
FrankfurtZagreb
Score7052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3127
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 24 points.24
FrankfurtZagreb
Score6945
Museums within 10 km7941
Museums within 2 km of centre4340
Share of museums within 2 km %5498
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 2 points.2
FrankfurtZagreb
Score5961
Drinking venues within 4 km9311,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7457
Nightclubs within 4 km5663
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 30 points.30
FrankfurtZagreb
Score6434
Protected land share 50 km %289
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km124 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 40 points.40
FrankfurtZagreb
Score6828
Tourist attractions within 2 km457
Park area within 2 km124 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtZagreb
Score6160
Notable places within 2 km129122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 20 points.20
FrankfurtZagreb
Score6080
Price level global75.948.5
Daily budget€163€138
Year-round weather. Frankfurt and Zagreb are level on 62.
FrankfurtZagreb
Score6262
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months10
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtZagreb
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 13 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubrovnikDBV
2 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 13 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureFrankfurtZagreb
Official languageGermanCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation101 m127 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtZagreb
City population775,790767,131
People per km²3,124
Museums within 10 km5327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre7142

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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. 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.