VacationSelector

Interlaken or Zadar?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
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.

InterlakenZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
InterlakenZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1249
Coast distance713 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Interlaken leads by 4 points.4
InterlakenZadar
Score2925
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1711
Museums & heritage. Zadar leads by 10 points.10
InterlakenZadar
Score2333
Museums within 10 km58
Museums within 2 km of centre28
Share of museums within 2 km %40100
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Zadar leads by 21 points.21
InterlakenZadar
Score425
Drinking venues within 4 km42194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9072
Nightclubs within 4 km34
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 28 points.28
InterlakenZadar
Score2755
Protected land share 50 km %1912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10047
Park area within 2 km5 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Zadar leads by 17 points.17
InterlakenZadar
Score1431
Tourist attractions within 2 km119
Park area within 2 km5 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
InterlakenZadar
Score2231
Notable places within 2 km1423
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 45 points.45
InterlakenZadar
Score3580
Price level global110.548.5
Daily budget€248€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 12 points.12
InterlakenZadar
Score5769
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenZadar
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 45 m
€156-284
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 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 2026-09 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

MeasureInterlakenZadar
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshCroatian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m5 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenZadar
City population6,12370,779
People per km²1,424
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2217
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). 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. 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.

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.