VacationSelector

Split or Thessaloniki?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

SplitThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 18 points.18
SplitThessaloniki
Score7355
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km874
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
SplitThessaloniki
Score3850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre268640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1515
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 3 points.3
SplitThessaloniki
Score5249
Museums within 10 km1834
Museums within 2 km of centre1622
Share of museums within 2 km %8965
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 26 points.26
SplitThessaloniki
Score4167
Drinking venues within 4 km3791,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre263805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6957
Nightclubs within 4 km2361
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.27
SplitThessaloniki
Score3865
Protected land share 50 km %925
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6283
Park area within 2 km30 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.15
SplitThessaloniki
Score2641
Tourist attractions within 2 km916
Park area within 2 km30 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 14 points.14
SplitThessaloniki
Score4256
Notable places within 2 km4398
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 6 points.6
SplitThessaloniki
Score8074
Price level global48.555.8
Daily budget€138€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 3 points.3
SplitThessaloniki
Score6972
Monthly daytime high10.7 °C to 31 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 117 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months29
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSplitThessaloniki
AthensATH
1 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 0 m
€205-272
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€171-200
SPU · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
StuttgartSTR
1 h 35 m
€187-213
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€217
SKG · 14 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

MeasureSplitThessaloniki
Official languageCroatianGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitThessaloniki
City population160,577309,617
People per km²16,042
Museums within 10 km1131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre3145
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.