VacationSelector

Porto or Zadar?

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

Your match

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

PortoZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
PortoZadar
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km5249
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 43 points.43
PortoZadar
Score6825
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,172143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2711
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 38 points.38
PortoZadar
Score7133
Museums within 10 km1018
Museums within 2 km of centre578
Share of museums within 2 km %56100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Porto leads by 33 points.33
PortoZadar
Score5825
Drinking venues within 4 km900194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6372
Nightclubs within 4 km384
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 22 points.22
PortoZadar
Score3355
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6147
Park area within 2 km30 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 34 points.34
PortoZadar
Score6531
Tourist attractions within 2 km1229
Park area within 2 km30 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 23 points.23
PortoZadar
Score5431
Notable places within 2 km8523
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
PortoZadar
Score7480
Price level global55.948.5
Daily budget€109€138
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 2 points.2
PortoZadar
Score7169
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 45 m
€106-125
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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

MeasurePortoZadar
Official languagePortugueseCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m5 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoZadar
City population231,80070,779
People per km²5,599
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre7017
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.