VacationSelector

Split or Sydney?

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

Your match

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

SplitSydney
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 13 points.13
SplitSydney
Score7360
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km87160
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 40 points.40
SplitSydney
Score3878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2682,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1531
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 1 points.1
SplitSydney
Score5251
Museums within 10 km1844
Museums within 2 km of centre1620
Share of museums within 2 km %8945
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 34 points.34
SplitSydney
Score4175
Drinking venues within 4 km3792,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2631,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6969
Nightclubs within 4 km23120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 20 points.20
SplitSydney
Score3858
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6252
Park area within 2 km30 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 38 points.38
SplitSydney
Score2664
Tourist attractions within 2 km937
Park area within 2 km30 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 18 points.18
SplitSydney
Score4260
Notable places within 2 km43123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 30 points.30
SplitSydney
Score8050
Price level global48.590.2
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 12 points.12
SplitSydney
Score6981
Monthly daytime high10.7 °C to 31 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 117 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months20
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSplitSydney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureSplitSydney
Official languageCroatianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitSydney
City population160,5775,450,496
People per km²449
Museums within 10 km1138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre3179
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.