VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Zadar?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
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.

PhiladelphiaZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km149
Coast distance13 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 52 points.52
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score7725
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 27 points.27
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score6033
Museums within 10 km898
Museums within 2 km of centre488
Share of museums within 2 km %54100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 34 points.34
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score5925
Drinking venues within 4 km930194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6272
Nightclubs within 4 km414
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score4955
Protected land share 50 km %1412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8947
Park area within 2 km75 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score5331
Tourist attractions within 2 km169
Park area within 2 km75 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score5431
Notable places within 2 km8823
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 37 points.37
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
PhiladelphiaZadar
Score6069
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C10.4 °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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Zadar
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
Zadar
9
10
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
Zadar
No sunshine record

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

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaZadar
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
OsloOSL, TRF
7 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaZadar
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 m5 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaZadar
City population1,603,79770,779
People per km²4,339
Museums within 10 km541
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7517
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.