VacationSelector

Split or Zurich?

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.

Zurich
44
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.

SplitZurich
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
SplitZurich
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km8723
Coast distance0 km632 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 29 points.29
SplitZurich
Score3867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre268974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1530
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 4 points.4
SplitZurich
Score5256
Museums within 10 km1876
Museums within 2 km of centre1637
Share of museums within 2 km %8949
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 13 points.13
SplitZurich
Score4154
Drinking venues within 4 km379676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre263553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6982
Nightclubs within 4 km2374
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 1 points.1
SplitZurich
Score3837
Protected land share 50 km %916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km30 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 10 points.10
SplitZurich
Score2636
Tourist attractions within 2 km98
Park area within 2 km30 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 17 points.17
SplitZurich
Score4259
Notable places within 2 km43119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 45 points.45
SplitZurich
Score8035
Price level global48.5110.5
Daily budget€138€248
Year-round weather. Split leads by 16 points.16
SplitZurich
Score6953
Monthly daytime high10.7 °C to 31 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 117 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSplitZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€171-200
SPU · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 0 m
€205-272
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 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

MeasureSplitZurich
Official languageCroatianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m408 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitZurich
City population160,577452,421
People per km²5,147
Museums within 10 km1163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre3178
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.