VacationSelector

Tromso or Zadar?

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

Your match

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

TromsoZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 21 points.21
TromsoZadar
Score5273
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1449
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Zadar leads by 1 points.1
TromsoZadar
Score2425
Restaurants within 2 km of centre85143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1611
Museums & heritage. Zadar leads by 10 points.10
TromsoZadar
Score2333
Museums within 10 km108
Museums within 2 km of centre88
Share of museums within 2 km %80100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Zadar leads by 18 points.18
TromsoZadar
Score725
Drinking venues within 4 km67194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre61139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9172
Nightclubs within 4 km54
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 44 points.44
TromsoZadar
Score1155
Protected land share 50 km %912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %6547
Park area within 2 km7 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Zadar leads by 17 points.17
TromsoZadar
Score1431
Tourist attractions within 2 km99
Park area within 2 km7 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Zadar leads by 3 points.3
TromsoZadar
Score2831
Notable places within 2 km2023
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 26 points.26
TromsoZadar
Score5480
Price level global85.148.5
Daily budget€203€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 36 points.36
TromsoZadar
Score3369
Monthly daytime high-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall56 mm to 128 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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTromsoZadar
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€232-306
2 stops
SPU · 107 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€129-176
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€156-284
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 2026-09 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

MeasureTromsoZadar
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiCroatian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation20 m5 m
Main airportTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTromsoZadar
City population79,94370,779
People per km²32
Museums within 10 km81
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2317
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.