VacationSelector

Manchester or Split?

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

Your match

Manchester
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
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.

ManchesterSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 45 points.45
ManchesterSplit
Score2873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1087
Coast distance27 km0 km
Water distance27 km0 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 30 points.30
ManchesterSplit
Score6838
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 10 points.10
ManchesterSplit
Score4252
Museums within 10 km2318
Museums within 2 km of centre1116
Share of museums within 2 km %4889
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 21 points.21
ManchesterSplit
Score6241
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7769
Nightclubs within 4 km8223
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 2 points.2
ManchesterSplit
Score3638
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %9962
Park area within 2 km63 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 6 points.6
ManchesterSplit
Score3226
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km63 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 6 points.6
ManchesterSplit
Score4842
Notable places within 2 km6143
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 26 points.26
ManchesterSplit
Score5480
Price level global84.948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 15 points.15
ManchesterSplit
Score5469
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromManchesterSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureManchesterSplit
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
Elevation38 m0 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterSplit
City population547,627160,577
People per km²4,737
Museums within 10 km2811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre6331
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). 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.