VacationSelector

Genoa or Zadar?

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

Your match

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

GenoaZadar
Beaches & swimming. Genoa and Zadar are level on 73.
GenoaZadar
Score7373
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km3749
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaZadar
Score5025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1411
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 22 points.22
GenoaZadar
Score5533
Museums within 10 km478
Museums within 2 km of centre338
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaZadar
Score5025
Drinking venues within 4 km637194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6672
Nightclubs within 4 km174
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 20 points.20
GenoaZadar
Score3555
Protected land share 50 km %812
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6147
Park area within 2 km29 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
GenoaZadar
Score3831
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km29 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 30 points.30
GenoaZadar
Score6131
Notable places within 2 km13023
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 12 points.12
GenoaZadar
Score6880
Price level global64.948.5
Daily budget€155€138
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 4 points.4
GenoaZadar
Score7369
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaZadar
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€207-240
1 stop
GOA · 7 km
1 h 25 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

MeasureGenoaZadar
Official languageItalianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m5 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaZadar
City population558,74570,779
People per km²2,325
Museums within 10 km511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4117
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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.