VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Split?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

PhiladelphiaSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km187
Coast distance13 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 39 points.39
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score7738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 8 points.8
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score6052
Museums within 10 km8918
Museums within 2 km of centre4816
Share of museums within 2 km %5489
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score5941
Drinking venues within 4 km930379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6269
Nightclubs within 4 km4123
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 11 points.11
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score4938
Protected land share 50 km %149
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8962
Park area within 2 km75 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 27 points.27
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score5326
Tourist attractions within 2 km169
Park area within 2 km75 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score5442
Notable places within 2 km8843
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 37 points.37
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 9 points.9
PhiladelphiaSplit
Score6069
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
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

MeasurePhiladelphiaSplit
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m0 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaSplit
City population1,603,797160,577
People per km²4,339
Museums within 10 km5411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre7531
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). 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. 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.