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White sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach, Pensacola
PensacolaWhite sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Pensacola by Jason Meredith, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Pensacola 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 Pensacola for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Zadar for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Pensacola 84, Zadar 72: Pensacola leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Pensacola and Zadar are level on 45.
Culture & sights. Pensacola 45, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Pensacola 42, Zadar 38: Pensacola leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pensacola 62, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Pensacola 45, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Pensacola 62, Zadar 55: Pensacola leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Pensacola 18, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Pensacola 28, Zadar 27: Pensacola leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Pensacola 44, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pensacola 36, Zadar 28: Pensacola leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Pensacola 30, Zadar 35: Zadar leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pensacola and Zadar.

Your match

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

Pensacola
45match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Pensacola in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
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

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. Pensacola: 1991-2020 normals, Pensacola / Pleasant Grove (12.3 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePensacolaZadar
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m5 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)6 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePensacolaZadar
City population54,31270,779
People per km²515-
Museums within 10 km51
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months4 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.