VacationSelector

San Jose or Zadar?

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

Your match

San Jose
39
match

Wins on places to eat and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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 JoseZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 65 points.65
San JoseZadar
Score873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km149
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. San Jose leads by 16 points.16
San JoseZadar
Score4125
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1611
Museums & heritage. Zadar leads by 7 points.7
San JoseZadar
Score2633
Museums within 10 km208
Museums within 2 km of centre98
Share of museums within 2 km %45100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. San Jose leads by 6 points.6
San JoseZadar
Score3125
Drinking venues within 4 km231194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3872
Nightclubs within 4 km164
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 15 points.15
San JoseZadar
Score7055
Protected land share 50 km %2612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %9147
Park area within 2 km101 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. San Jose leads by 2 points.2
San JoseZadar
Score3331
Tourist attractions within 2 km29
Park area within 2 km101 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Zadar leads by 17 points.17
San JoseZadar
Score1431
Notable places within 2 km923
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 37 points.37
San JoseZadar
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 16 points.16
San JoseZadar
Score8569
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months82
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 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 JoseZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 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 · 57 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
DublinDUB
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 50 m
€122-164
1 stop
ZAD · 10 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 JoseZadar
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
Elevation25 m5 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseZadar
City population1,013,24070,779
People per km²2,167
Museums within 10 km191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3017
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.