VacationSelector

Split or Washington DC?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Split
51
match

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

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

SplitWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 55 points.55
SplitWashington DC
Score7318
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km871
Coast distance0 km34 km
Water distance0 km34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 39 points.39
SplitWashington DC
Score3877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2681,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1536
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 3 points.3
SplitWashington DC
Score5255
Museums within 10 km1883
Museums within 2 km of centre1655
Share of museums within 2 km %8966
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 20 points.20
SplitWashington DC
Score4161
Drinking venues within 4 km3791,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre263593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6958
Nightclubs within 4 km2354
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 4 points.4
SplitWashington DC
Score3842
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6294
Park area within 2 km30 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Washington DC leads by 12 points.12
SplitWashington DC
Score2638
Tourist attractions within 2 km97
Park area within 2 km30 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 34 points.34
SplitWashington DC
Score4276
Notable places within 2 km43305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 37 points.37
SplitWashington DC
Score8043
Price level global48.5100
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 7 points.7
SplitWashington DC
Score6962
Monthly daytime high10.7 °C to 31 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 117 mm65 mm to 108 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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A
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4
Washington DC
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSplitWashington DC
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DublinDUB
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
7 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureSplitWashington DC
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m72 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitWashington DC
City population160,577689,545
People per km²3,896
Museums within 10 km1199
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre3182
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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.