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Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Toledo or Zadar?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Toledo for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’s own page.

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Toledo 5, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Toledo 40, Zadar 45: Zadar leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Toledo 79, Zadar 55: Toledo leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Toledo 22, Zadar 38: Zadar leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Toledo 40, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Toledo 78, Zadar 70: Toledo leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Toledo 45, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Toledo 64, Zadar 58: Toledo leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Toledo 32, Zadar 27: Toledo leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Toledo 58, Zadar 52: Toledo leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Toledo 22, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Toledo 30, Zadar 35: Zadar leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Toledo and Zadar.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Toledo
43match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Zadar has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureToledoZadar
Official languageSpanishCroatian
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
Elevation523 m5 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureToledoZadar
City population87,21670,779
People per km²376-
Museums within 10 km131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.