VacationSelector

San Francisco or Zagreb?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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 FranciscoZagreb
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
San FranciscoZagreb
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km448
Coast distance2 km117 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 31 points.31
San FranciscoZagreb
Score8352
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3927
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 1 points.1
San FranciscoZagreb
Score4445
Museums within 10 km5741
Museums within 2 km of centre2940
Share of museums within 2 km %5198
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 7 points.7
San FranciscoZagreb
Score6861
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4341,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6557
Nightclubs within 4 km9763
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 26 points.26
San FranciscoZagreb
Score6034
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %57100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 29 points.29
San FranciscoZagreb
Score5728
Tourist attractions within 2 km487
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 3 points.3
San FranciscoZagreb
Score6360
Notable places within 2 km147122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 37 points.37
San FranciscoZagreb
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 16 points.16
San FranciscoZagreb
Score7862
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months70
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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
No sunshine record
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
2
2

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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
15 h 55 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureSan FranciscoZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoZagreb
City population873,965767,131
People per km²1,455
Museums within 10 km5027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre10842
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.