VacationSelector

Lisbon or Zadar?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
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.

LisbonZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 16 points.16
LisbonZadar
Score5773
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2449
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 55 points.55
LisbonZadar
Score8025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3111
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 37 points.37
LisbonZadar
Score7033
Museums within 10 km1248
Museums within 2 km of centre548
Share of museums within 2 km %44100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 40 points.40
LisbonZadar
Score6525
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km654
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 1 points.1
LisbonZadar
Score5655
Protected land share 50 km %1112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5447
Park area within 2 km77 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 38 points.38
LisbonZadar
Score6931
Tourist attractions within 2 km829
Park area within 2 km77 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 35 points.35
LisbonZadar
Score6631
Notable places within 2 km16923
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
LisbonZadar
Score7480
Price level global55.948.5
Daily budget€109€138
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 9 points.9
LisbonZadar
Score7869
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 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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Daytime high, °C
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€222-263
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
€126-176
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 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

MeasureLisbonZadar
Official languagePortugueseCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m5 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonZadar
City population545,79670,779
People per km²5,453
Museums within 10 km781
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre10617
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. 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.