VacationSelector

Split or Valencia?

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.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

SplitValencia
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 6 points.6
SplitValencia
Score7367
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km8712
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 40 points.40
SplitValencia
Score3878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2681,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1533
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
SplitValencia
Score5255
Museums within 10 km1859
Museums within 2 km of centre1626
Share of museums within 2 km %8944
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 29 points.29
SplitValencia
Score4170
Drinking venues within 4 km3791,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre263957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6963
Nightclubs within 4 km23108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 15 points.15
SplitValencia
Score3853
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6264
Park area within 2 km30 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
SplitValencia
Score2642
Tourist attractions within 2 km912
Park area within 2 km30 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 10 points.10
SplitValencia
Score4252
Notable places within 2 km4378
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 9 points.9
SplitValencia
Score8071
Price level global48.560.8
Daily budget€138€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 15 points.15
SplitValencia
Score6984
Monthly daytime high10.7 °C to 31 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 117 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months28
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSplitValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€155-215
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€196-284
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€151-206
1 stop
VLC · 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

MeasureSplitValencia
Official languageCroatianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m15 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitValencia
City population160,577840,792
People per km²6,242
Museums within 10 km1146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre3192
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.