VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Split?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongSplit
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongSplit
Score8773
Swim season months84
Beaches 10 km6587
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 50 points.50
Hong KongSplit
Score8838
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 16 points.16
Hong KongSplit
Score3652
Museums within 10 km5018
Museums within 2 km of centre1716
Share of museums within 2 km %3489
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 30 points.30
Hong KongSplit
Score7141
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5969
Nightclubs within 4 km3723
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 26 points.26
Hong KongSplit
Score6438
Protected land share 50 km %89
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2962
Park area within 2 km52 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 32 points.32
Hong KongSplit
Score5826
Tourist attractions within 2 km279
Park area within 2 km52 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongSplit
Score6942
Notable places within 2 km20443
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongSplit
Score6380
Price level global7248.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
Hong KongSplit
Score7469
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months42
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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromHong KongSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 50 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 50 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€232-306
2 stops
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureHong KongSplit
Official languageStandard ChineseCroatian
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongSplit
City population7,413,070160,577
Museums within 10 km3911
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre7631
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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.