VacationSelector

Osaka or Zadar?

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

Your match

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

OsakaZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 18 points.18
OsakaZadar
Score5573
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km2549
Coast distance7 km0 km
Water distance7 km0 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 65 points.65
OsakaZadar
Score9025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2511
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 31 points.31
OsakaZadar
Score6433
Museums within 10 km788
Museums within 2 km of centre228
Share of museums within 2 km %28100
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 72 points.72
OsakaZadar
Score9725
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5372
Nightclubs within 4 km974
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 27 points.27
OsakaZadar
Score2855
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8447
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 41 points.41
OsakaZadar
Score7231
Tourist attractions within 2 km479
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 17 points.17
OsakaZadar
Score4831
Notable places within 2 km6323
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 10 points.10
OsakaZadar
Score7080
Price level global62.448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
OsakaZadar
Score6369
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 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
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€132-174
ZAD · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
3 h 0 m
€232-306
2 stops
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 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

MeasureOsakaZadar
Official languageJapaneseCroatian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m5 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaZadar
City population2,751,86270,779
People per km²12,340
Museums within 10 km431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre9717
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.