VacationSelector

Shanghai or Zadar?

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

Your match

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

ShanghaiZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 56 points.56
ShanghaiZadar
Score1773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km049
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance18 km0 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 12 points.12
ShanghaiZadar
Score4533
Museums within 10 km1088
Museums within 2 km of centre288
Share of museums within 2 km %26100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
ShanghaiZadar
Score4255
Protected land share 50 km %912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8247
Park area within 2 km83 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 50 points.50
ShanghaiZadar
Score8131
Tourist attractions within 2 km869
Park area within 2 km83 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km101
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 20 points.20
ShanghaiZadar
Score5131
Notable places within 2 km7323
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 1 points.1
ShanghaiZadar
Score7980
Price level global4948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 4 points.4
ShanghaiZadar
Score6569
Monthly daytime high8.5 °C to 33.2 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 216 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromShanghaiZadar
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
9 h 50 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
DublinDUB
11 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
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 2026-08 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

MeasureShanghaiZadar
Official languagePutonghuaCroatian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation4 m5 m
Main airportShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureShanghaiZadar
City population24,870,89570,779
People per km²3,922
Museums within 10 km441
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6417
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.