VacationSelector

Prague or Zadar?

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

Your match

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

PragueZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
PragueZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km749
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 50 points.50
PragueZadar
Score7525
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2911
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 39 points.39
PragueZadar
Score7233
Museums within 10 km1388
Museums within 2 km of centre1008
Share of museums within 2 km %72100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Prague leads by 52 points.52
PragueZadar
Score7725
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6572
Nightclubs within 4 km1234
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 10 points.10
PragueZadar
Score4555
Protected land share 50 km %1212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10047
Park area within 2 km183 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 44 points.44
PragueZadar
Score7531
Tourist attractions within 2 km549
Park area within 2 km183 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 45 points.45
PragueZadar
Score7631
Notable places within 2 km31023
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 5 points.5
PragueZadar
Score7580
Price level global55.248.5
Daily budget€107€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 8 points.8
PragueZadar
Score6169
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months72
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 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

MeasurePragueZadar
Official languageCzechCroatian
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)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
Elevation235 m5 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueZadar
City population1,397,88070,779
People per km²2,817
Museums within 10 km881
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8917
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). 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. 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.