VacationSelector

Tampa or Zadar?

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

Your match

Tampa
44
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

TampaZadar
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
TampaZadar
Score7573
Swim season months84
Beaches 10 km1049
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 29 points.29
TampaZadar
Score5425
Restaurants within 2 km of centre359143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3111
Museums & heritage. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
TampaZadar
Score2733
Museums within 10 km138
Museums within 2 km of centre108
Share of museums within 2 km %77100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 14 points.14
TampaZadar
Score3925
Drinking venues within 4 km324194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7072
Nightclubs within 4 km264
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 25 points.25
TampaZadar
Score3055
Protected land share 50 km %612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7247
Park area within 2 km39 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Zadar leads by 1 points.1
TampaZadar
Score3031
Tourist attractions within 2 km39
Park area within 2 km39 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Zadar leads by 10 points.10
TampaZadar
Score2131
Notable places within 2 km1323
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 37 points.37
TampaZadar
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 6 points.6
TampaZadar
Score7569
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months12
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaZadar
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 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

MeasureTampaZadar
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation30 m5 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaZadar
City population384,95970,779
People per km²848
Museums within 10 km61
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4717
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months4 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.