VacationSelector

Valencia or Zadar?

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

Your match

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

ValenciaZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
ValenciaZadar
Score6773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km1249
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 53 points.53
ValenciaZadar
Score7825
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,995143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3311
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 22 points.22
ValenciaZadar
Score5533
Museums within 10 km598
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %44100
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 45 points.45
ValenciaZadar
Score7025
Drinking venues within 4 km1,513194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre957139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6372
Nightclubs within 4 km1084
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 2 points.2
ValenciaZadar
Score5355
Protected land share 50 km %1012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6447
Park area within 2 km119 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 11 points.11
ValenciaZadar
Score4231
Tourist attractions within 2 km129
Park area within 2 km119 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 21 points.21
ValenciaZadar
Score5231
Notable places within 2 km7823
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
ValenciaZadar
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 15 points.15
ValenciaZadar
Score8469
Monthly daytime high16.8 °C to 30.6 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 70 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months82
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromValenciaZadar
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
€196-284
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 0 m
€151-206
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
€155-215
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 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

MeasureValenciaZadar
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
Elevation15 m5 m
Main airportValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureValenciaZadar
City population840,79270,779
People per km²6,242
Museums within 10 km461
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre9217
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.