VacationSelector

Shanghai or Zagreb?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

ShanghaiZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
ShanghaiZagreb
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance18 km117 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai and Zagreb are level on 45.
ShanghaiZagreb
Score4545
Museums within 10 km10841
Museums within 2 km of centre2840
Share of museums within 2 km %2698
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 8 points.8
ShanghaiZagreb
Score4234
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km83 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 53 points.53
ShanghaiZagreb
Score8128
Tourist attractions within 2 km867
Park area within 2 km83 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km100
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 9 points.9
ShanghaiZagreb
Score5160
Notable places within 2 km73122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 1 points.1
ShanghaiZagreb
Score7980
Price level global4948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 3 points.3
ShanghaiZagreb
Score6562
Monthly daytime high8.5 °C to 33.2 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 216 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months00
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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4
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. Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromShanghaiZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
8 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
14 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
9 h 0 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

MeasureShanghaiZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureShanghaiZagreb
City population24,870,895767,131
People per km²3,922
Museums within 10 km4427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6442
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.