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The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Sapporo 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 Sapporo for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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. Sapporo 28, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Sapporo 80, Zadar 45: Sapporo leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Sapporo 40, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Sapporo 62, Zadar 38: Sapporo leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sapporo 86, Zadar 82: Sapporo leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Sapporo 64, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Sapporo 72, Zadar 55: Sapporo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Sapporo 80, Zadar 58: Sapporo leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Sapporo 58, Zadar 27: Sapporo leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Sapporo 60, Zadar 52: Sapporo leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sapporo 44, Zadar 28: Sapporo leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sapporo 80, Zadar 35: Sapporo leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sapporo and Zadar.

Your match

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

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

Zadar
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.

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 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. Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSapporoZadar
Official languageJapaneseCroatian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation5 m5 m
Main airportNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSapporoZadar
City population1,959,31370,779
People per km²1,747-
Museums within 10 km331
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month4 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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.