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The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Puerto Iguazu 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 Puerto Iguazu for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Puerto Iguazu 5, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Iguazu 28, Zadar 45: Zadar leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Iguazu 9, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Iguazu 14, Zadar 38: Zadar leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Iguazu 95, Zadar 82: Puerto Iguazu leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Puerto Iguazu 33, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Puerto Iguazu and Zadar are level on 55.
Getting around. Puerto Iguazu 54, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Iguazu 17, Zadar 27: Zadar leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Puerto Iguazu 48, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Iguazu 7, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Iguazu 34, Zadar 35: Zadar leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Iguazu and Zadar.

Your match

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

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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. Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto IguazuZadar
Official languageSpanishCroatian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation162 m5 m
Main airportCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto IguazuZadar
City population54,90370,779
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.