VacationSelector

San Francisco or Zadar?

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

Your match

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

San FranciscoZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
San FranciscoZadar
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km4449
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 58 points.58
San FranciscoZadar
Score8325
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3911
Museums & heritage. San Francisco leads by 11 points.11
San FranciscoZadar
Score4433
Museums within 10 km578
Museums within 2 km of centre298
Share of museums within 2 km %51100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 43 points.43
San FranciscoZadar
Score6825
Drinking venues within 4 km1,434194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6572
Nightclubs within 4 km974
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 5 points.5
San FranciscoZadar
Score6055
Protected land share 50 km %1712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5747
Park area within 2 km45 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 26 points.26
San FranciscoZadar
Score5731
Tourist attractions within 2 km489
Park area within 2 km45 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 32 points.32
San FranciscoZadar
Score6331
Notable places within 2 km14723
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 37 points.37
San FranciscoZadar
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 9 points.9
San FranciscoZadar
Score7869
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 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
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
DublinDUB
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
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 2026-09 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

MeasureSan FranciscoZadar
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation16 m5 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoZadar
City population873,96570,779
People per km²1,455
Museums within 10 km501
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre10817
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). 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. 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.