VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Split?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

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

Split
✓ Best match
51
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.

HeidelbergSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
HeidelbergSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km687
Coast distance406 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 9 points.9
HeidelbergSplit
Score4738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 7 points.7
HeidelbergSplit
Score5952
Museums within 10 km5418
Museums within 2 km of centre2316
Share of museums within 2 km %4389
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Split leads by 14 points.14
HeidelbergSplit
Score2741
Drinking venues within 4 km201379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8469
Nightclubs within 4 km823
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 36 points.36
HeidelbergSplit
Score7438
Protected land share 50 km %529
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km20 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 17 points.17
HeidelbergSplit
Score4326
Tourist attractions within 2 km299
Park area within 2 km20 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Split leads by 6 points.6
HeidelbergSplit
Score3642
Notable places within 2 km3143
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 20 points.20
HeidelbergSplit
Score6080
Price level global75.948.5
Daily budget€163€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergSplit
Score6169
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall45 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 69 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 50 m
€121-146
FRA · 69 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
€171-200
SPU · 12 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 5 m
€140-202
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureHeidelbergSplit
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
Elevation114 m0 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergSplit
City population162,960160,577
People per km²1,496
Museums within 10 km1711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre4531
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.