VacationSelector

Palermo or Zadar?

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

Your match

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

PalermoZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
PalermoZadar
Score6773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km1349
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
PalermoZadar
Score5025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre807143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1311
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
PalermoZadar
Score5033
Museums within 10 km328
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %81100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 28 points.28
PalermoZadar
Score5325
Drinking venues within 4 km799194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6472
Nightclubs within 4 km164
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 19 points.19
PalermoZadar
Score3655
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4547
Park area within 2 km63 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 10 points.10
PalermoZadar
Score4131
Tourist attractions within 2 km169
Park area within 2 km63 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 26 points.26
PalermoZadar
Score5731
Notable places within 2 km10423
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 12 points.12
PalermoZadar
Score6880
Price level global64.948.5
Daily budget€155€138
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 8 points.8
PalermoZadar
Score7769
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months72
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
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
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoZadar
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 0 m
€114-166
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 55 m
€161-283
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasurePalermoZadar
Official languageItalianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m5 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoZadar
City population630,16770,779
People per km²3,924
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre3317
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). 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.