VacationSelector

Vancouver or Zagreb?

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

Your match

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

VancouverZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
VancouverZagreb
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1098
Coast distance1 km117 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 22 points.22
VancouverZagreb
Score7452
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,330374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3527
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 11 points.11
VancouverZagreb
Score3445
Museums within 10 km2741
Museums within 2 km of centre1540
Share of museums within 2 km %5698
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 4 points.4
VancouverZagreb
Score5761
Drinking venues within 4 km8481,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre602571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7157
Nightclubs within 4 km4463
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 43 points.43
VancouverZagreb
Score7734
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %60100
Park area within 2 km103 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 25 points.25
VancouverZagreb
Score5328
Tourist attractions within 2 km157
Park area within 2 km103 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 12 points.12
VancouverZagreb
Score4860
Notable places within 2 km63122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 26 points.26
VancouverZagreb
Score5480
Price level global8448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 9 points.9
VancouverZagreb
Score5362
Monthly daytime high7.3 °C to 23 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 245 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months00
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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2
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. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVancouverZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
€629-762
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ZurichZRH
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DublinDUB
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 50 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 2026-09 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

MeasureVancouverZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureVancouverZagreb
City population662,248767,131
People per km²5,759
Museums within 10 km2627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre8542
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.