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Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Victoria Falls 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 Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Victoria Falls 7, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Victoria Falls 24, Zadar 45: Zadar leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Victoria Falls 12, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Victoria Falls 8, Zadar 38: Zadar leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Victoria Falls 94, Zadar 82: Victoria Falls leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Victoria Falls 22, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Victoria Falls 38, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Victoria Falls 45, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Victoria Falls 18, Zadar 27: Zadar leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Victoria Falls 32, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Victoria Falls 10, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Victoria Falls 34, Zadar 35: Zadar leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Victoria Falls and Zadar.

Your match

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

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
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.

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Victoria FallsZadar

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. Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVictoria FallsZadar
Official languageEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, BarweCroatian
CurrencyZimbabwe Gold (ZWG)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation961 m5 m
Main airportVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureVictoria FallsZadar
City population33,06070,779
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.