VacationSelector

Tokyo or Zadar?

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

Your match

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

TokyoZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 52 points.52
TokyoZadar
Score2173
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km149
Coast distance5 km0 km
Water distance5 km0 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 65 points.65
TokyoZadar
Score9025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,936143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2511
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 33 points.33
TokyoZadar
Score6633
Museums within 10 km3028
Museums within 2 km of centre528
Share of museums within 2 km %17100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 70 points.70
TokyoZadar
Score9525
Drinking venues within 4 km6,895194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3,033139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4472
Nightclubs within 4 km584
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 3 points.3
TokyoZadar
Score5855
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8547
Park area within 2 km85 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 40 points.40
TokyoZadar
Score7131
Tourist attractions within 2 km409
Park area within 2 km85 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km91
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 29 points.29
TokyoZadar
Score6031
Notable places within 2 km12123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 10 points.10
TokyoZadar
Score7080
Price level global62.448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 5 points.5
TokyoZadar
Score6469
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 31.5 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall57 mm to 237 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTokyoZadar
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 15 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 50 m
€1,071-1283
1 stop
HND · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€232-306
2 stops
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
ViennaVIE
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 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

MeasureTokyoZadar
Official languageJapaneseCroatian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation6 m5 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTokyoZadar
City population14,264,79870,779
People per km²6,501
Museums within 10 km1911
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre12517
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.