VacationSelector

Granada or Zadar?

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

Your match

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

GranadaZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
GranadaZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km049
Coast distance48 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 42 points.42
GranadaZadar
Score6725
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3411
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 15 points.15
GranadaZadar
Score4833
Museums within 10 km288
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %93100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Granada leads by 27 points.27
GranadaZadar
Score5225
Drinking venues within 4 km637194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km464
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 8 points.8
GranadaZadar
Score6355
Protected land share 50 km %2712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9647
Park area within 2 km46 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 25 points.25
GranadaZadar
Score5631
Tourist attractions within 2 km609
Park area within 2 km46 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Granada leads by 13 points.13
GranadaZadar
Score4431
Notable places within 2 km5023
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
GranadaZadar
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 5 points.5
GranadaZadar
Score7469
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months72
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
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
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 97 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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

MeasureGranadaZadar
Official languageSpanishCroatian
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
Elevation693 m5 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaZadar
City population233,97570,779
People per km²2,659
Museums within 10 km191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6217
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.