VacationSelector

Sydney or Zagreb?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on 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.

SydneyZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
SydneyZagreb
Score600
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km1608
Coast distance7 km117 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 26 points.26
SydneyZagreb
Score7852
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,205374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3127
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
SydneyZagreb
Score5145
Museums within 10 km4441
Museums within 2 km of centre2040
Share of museums within 2 km %4598
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 14 points.14
SydneyZagreb
Score7561
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0501,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6957
Nightclubs within 4 km12063
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 24 points.24
SydneyZagreb
Score5834
Protected land share 50 km %109
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km115 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 36 points.36
SydneyZagreb
Score6428
Tourist attractions within 2 km377
Park area within 2 km115 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Sydney and Zagreb are level on 60.
SydneyZagreb
Score6060
Notable places within 2 km123122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 30 points.30
SydneyZagreb
Score5080
Price level global90.248.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 19 points.19
SydneyZagreb
Score8162
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months00
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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J
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Daytime high, °C
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyZagreb
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
19 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureSydneyZagreb
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation6 m127 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyZagreb
City population5,450,496767,131
People per km²449
Museums within 10 km3827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre7942
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.