VacationSelector

Tokyo or Zagreb?

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 good for families and places to eat 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.

TokyoZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
TokyoZagreb
Score210
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km18
Coast distance5 km117 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 38 points.38
TokyoZagreb
Score9052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,936374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2527
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
TokyoZagreb
Score6645
Museums within 10 km30241
Museums within 2 km of centre5240
Share of museums within 2 km %1798
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 34 points.34
TokyoZagreb
Score9561
Drinking venues within 4 km6,8951,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3,033571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4457
Nightclubs within 4 km5863
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 24 points.24
TokyoZagreb
Score5834
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km85 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 43 points.43
TokyoZagreb
Score7128
Tourist attractions within 2 km407
Park area within 2 km85 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km90
Sights concentration. Tokyo and Zagreb are level on 60.
TokyoZagreb
Score6060
Notable places within 2 km121122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 10 points.10
TokyoZagreb
Score7080
Price level global62.448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 2 points.2
TokyoZagreb
Score6462
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 31.5 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall57 mm to 237 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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Daytime high, °C
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6
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. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTokyoZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
12 h 50 m
no fares
HND · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureTokyoZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTokyoZagreb
City population14,264,798767,131
People per km²6,501
Museums within 10 km19127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre12542
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). 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.