VacationSelector

Vilnius or Zadar?

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

Your match

Vilnius
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

VilniusZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
VilniusZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1649
Coast distance260 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vilnius leads by 35 points.35
VilniusZadar
Score6025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre537143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 38 points.38
VilniusZadar
Score7133
Museums within 10 km748
Museums within 2 km of centre548
Share of museums within 2 km %73100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Vilnius leads by 21 points.21
VilniusZadar
Score4625
Drinking venues within 4 km464194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8472
Nightclubs within 4 km394
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 14 points.14
VilniusZadar
Score4155
Protected land share 50 km %1012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10047
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Vilnius leads by 20 points.20
VilniusZadar
Score5131
Tourist attractions within 2 km279
Park area within 2 km88 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 34 points.34
VilniusZadar
Score6531
Notable places within 2 km16123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 4 points.4
VilniusZadar
Score7680
Price level global53.148.5
Daily budget€125€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 16 points.16
VilniusZadar
Score5369
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 24 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 90 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Vilnius
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVilniusZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€122-164
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 55 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureVilniusZadar
Official languageLithuanianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation98 m5 m
Main airportVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureVilniusZadar
City population581,47570,779
People per km²1,450
Museums within 10 km301
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5417
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.