VacationSelector

Split or York?

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

Your match

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

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

York
41
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

SplitYork
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
SplitYork
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km872
Coast distance0 km50 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. York leads by 16 points.16
SplitYork
Score3854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre268361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1531
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 6 points.6
SplitYork
Score5246
Museums within 10 km1818
Museums within 2 km of centre1616
Share of museums within 2 km %8989
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. York leads by 2 points.2
SplitYork
Score4143
Drinking venues within 4 km379450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre263353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6978
Nightclubs within 4 km2314
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 5 points.5
SplitYork
Score3833
Protected land share 50 km %917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %6295
Park area within 2 km30 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 17 points.17
SplitYork
Score2643
Tourist attractions within 2 km913
Park area within 2 km30 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Split leads by 3 points.3
SplitYork
Score4239
Notable places within 2 km4337
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 26 points.26
SplitYork
Score8054
Price level global48.584.9
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 13 points.13
SplitYork
Score6956
Monthly daytime high10.7 °C to 31 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 117 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months21
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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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSplitYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ZagrebZAG
55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 50 m
€149-194
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureSplitYork
Official languageCroatianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m25 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitYork
City population160,577208,400
People per km²766
Museums within 10 km1124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre3154
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.