VacationSelector

Stuttgart or Zadar?

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

Your match

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

StuttgartZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
StuttgartZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km349
Coast distance476 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 34 points.34
StuttgartZadar
Score5925
Restaurants within 2 km of centre575143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2911
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 23 points.23
StuttgartZadar
Score5633
Museums within 10 km658
Museums within 2 km of centre218
Share of museums within 2 km %32100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 24 points.24
StuttgartZadar
Score4925
Drinking venues within 4 km524194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7172
Nightclubs within 4 km534
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 25 points.25
StuttgartZadar
Score8055
Protected land share 50 km %5112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10047
Park area within 2 km78 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 14 points.14
StuttgartZadar
Score4531
Tourist attractions within 2 km119
Park area within 2 km78 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 13 points.13
StuttgartZadar
Score4431
Notable places within 2 km5023
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 20 points.20
StuttgartZadar
Score6080
Price level global75.948.5
Daily budget€163€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
StuttgartZadar
Score6369
Monthly daytime high5.6 °C to 25.9 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 79 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
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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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStuttgartZadar
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
55 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 10 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€197-289
1 stop
STR · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€156-284
ZAD · 10 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 20 m
€228-257
STR · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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

MeasureStuttgartZadar
Official languageGermanCroatian
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
Elevation245 m5 m
Main airportStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureStuttgartZadar
City population633,48470,779
People per km²3,054
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5917
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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.