VacationSelector

London or Split?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Split
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.

LondonSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
LondonSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km4787
Coast distance43 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. London leads by 50 points.50
LondonSplit
Score8838
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4015
Museums & heritage. London leads by 20 points.20
LondonSplit
Score7252
Museums within 10 km14818
Museums within 2 km of centre4916
Share of museums within 2 km %3389
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. London leads by 54 points.54
LondonSplit
Score9541
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4669
Nightclubs within 4 km31223
Nature & day trips. London leads by 2 points.2
LondonSplit
Score4038
Protected land share 50 km %169
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9762
Park area within 2 km84 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 49 points.49
LondonSplit
Score7526
Tourist attractions within 2 km859
Park area within 2 km84 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 47 points.47
LondonSplit
Score8942
Notable places within 2 km64943
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 26 points.26
LondonSplit
Score5480
Price level global84.948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 6 points.6
LondonSplit
Score6369
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months12
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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D
Daytime high, °C
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonSplit
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
ZagrebZAG
2 h 15 m
no fares
STN · 49 km
55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 35 m
€184-208
LHR · 23 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLondonSplit
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m0 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonSplit
City population8,799,728160,577
People per km²5,598
Museums within 10 km21511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre11631
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). 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. 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.