VacationSelector

Valencia or Zagreb?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

ValenciaZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
ValenciaZagreb
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km128
Coast distance3 km117 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 26 points.26
ValenciaZagreb
Score7852
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,995374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3327
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 10 points.10
ValenciaZagreb
Score5545
Museums within 10 km5941
Museums within 2 km of centre2640
Share of museums within 2 km %4498
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
ValenciaZagreb
Score7061
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5131,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre957571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6357
Nightclubs within 4 km10863
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 19 points.19
ValenciaZagreb
Score5334
Protected land share 50 km %109
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 14 points.14
ValenciaZagreb
Score4228
Tourist attractions within 2 km127
Park area within 2 km119 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 8 points.8
ValenciaZagreb
Score5260
Notable places within 2 km78122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 9 points.9
ValenciaZagreb
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 22 points.22
ValenciaZagreb
Score8462
Monthly daytime high16.8 °C to 30.6 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 70 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months80
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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5
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. Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromValenciaZagreb
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
€196-284
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€52-71
ZAG · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
1 h 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureValenciaZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureValenciaZagreb
City population840,792767,131
People per km²6,242
Museums within 10 km4627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre9242
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.