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Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Vancouver 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 Vancouver for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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. Vancouver 42, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Vancouver 72, Zadar 45: Vancouver leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Vancouver 42, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Vancouver 42, Zadar 38: Vancouver leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Vancouver 97, Zadar 82: Vancouver leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Vancouver 45, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Vancouver 72, Zadar 55: Vancouver leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Vancouver 73, Zadar 58: Vancouver leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Vancouver 55, Zadar 27: Vancouver leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Vancouver 27, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Vancouver 52, Zadar 28: Vancouver leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Vancouver 50, Zadar 35: Vancouver leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Vancouver and Zadar.

Your match

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

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Zadar
51match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVancouverZadar
Official languageFrench, EnglishCroatian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m5 m
Main airportVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureVancouverZadar
City population662,24870,779
People per km²5,759-
Museums within 10 km261
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.

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.