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Palm Springs
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Palm Springs or Zadar?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’s own page.

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Palm Springs 7, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Zadar 45: Zadar leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Zadar 38: Zadar leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Zadar 27: Palm Springs leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Zadar 28: Palm Springs leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Zadar 35: Palm Springs leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Zadar.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Zadar has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsZadar
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation146 m5 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsZadar
City population44,57570,779
People per km²181-
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.