VacationSelector

Paris or Split?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

ParisSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
ParisSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km287
Coast distance149 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 52 points.52
ParisSplit
Score9038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3315
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 24 points.24
ParisSplit
Score7652
Museums within 10 km18518
Museums within 2 km of centre6516
Share of museums within 2 km %3589
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Paris leads by 47 points.47
ParisSplit
Score8841
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4569
Nightclubs within 4 km20123
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 10 points.10
ParisSplit
Score4838
Protected land share 50 km %289
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km82 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 49 points.49
ParisSplit
Score7526
Tourist attractions within 2 km899
Park area within 2 km82 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 52 points.52
ParisSplit
Score9442
Notable places within 2 km86543
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 18 points.18
ParisSplit
Score6280
Price level global73.748.5
Daily budget€160€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 3 points.3
ParisSplit
Score6669
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 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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Daytime high, °C
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
No sunshine record
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€122-134
CDG · 22 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 55 m
€153-171
CDG · 22 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 30 m
€160-210
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€150-199
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
2 h 40 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

MeasureParisSplit
Official languageFrenchCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation27 m0 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisSplit
City population2,103,778160,577
People per km²19,960
Museums within 10 km25111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre16931
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.