VacationSelector

Krakow or Zadar?

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

Your match

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

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

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

KrakowZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
KrakowZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km949
Coast distance456 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 43 points.43
KrakowZadar
Score6825
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3011
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 42 points.42
KrakowZadar
Score7533
Museums within 10 km848
Museums within 2 km of centre698
Share of museums within 2 km %82100
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 32 points.32
KrakowZadar
Score5725
Drinking venues within 4 km836194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8372
Nightclubs within 4 km544
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
KrakowZadar
Score4655
Protected land share 50 km %1412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10047
Park area within 2 km79 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 43 points.43
KrakowZadar
Score7431
Tourist attractions within 2 km779
Park area within 2 km79 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 37 points.37
KrakowZadar
Score6831
Notable places within 2 km19823
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 1 points.1
KrakowZadar
Score7980
Price level global4948.5
Daily budget€133€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 11 points.11
KrakowZadar
Score5869
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months42
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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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
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. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 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

MeasureKrakowZadar
Official languagePolishCroatian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m5 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowZadar
City population804,23770,779
People per km²2,459
Museums within 10 km1141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6817
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.