VacationSelector
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
The Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
ZagrebThe Croatian National Theatre

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Zagreb by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Santa Fe or Zagreb?

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 Santa Fe for

  • shopping
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Choose Zagreb for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Zagreb’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. Santa Fe 5, Zagreb 10: Zagreb leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, Zagreb 55: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe 66, Zagreb 56: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, Zagreb 47: Zagreb leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, Zagreb 62: Santa Fe leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, Zagreb 60: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, Zagreb 52: Zagreb leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, Zagreb 70: Zagreb leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, Zagreb 40: Santa Fe leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, Zagreb 60: Zagreb leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, Zagreb 52: Santa Fe leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, Zagreb 33: Santa Fe leads by 22 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and Zagreb.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on shopping and wellness with your weighting.

Zagreb
50match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Zagreb in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0255075100125JFMAMJJASOND
Santa FeZagreb

Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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. Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeZagreb
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m127 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeZagreb
City population87,505767,131
People per km²645-
Museums within 10 km1027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Santa Fe or Zagreb somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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). 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.