VacationSelector

Warsaw or Zagreb?

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

Your match

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

WarsawZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Warsaw and Zagreb are level on 0.
WarsawZagreb
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km268
Coast distance238 km117 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 20 points.20
WarsawZagreb
Score7252
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,222374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3427
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 18 points.18
WarsawZagreb
Score6345
Museums within 10 km10741
Museums within 2 km of centre6040
Share of museums within 2 km %5698
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 1 points.1
WarsawZagreb
Score6261
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0051,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre648571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6457
Nightclubs within 4 km10463
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 21 points.21
WarsawZagreb
Score5534
Protected land share 50 km %279
Landscape blanket share 50 km %190
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km107 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 42 points.42
WarsawZagreb
Score7028
Tourist attractions within 2 km427
Park area within 2 km107 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 16 points.16
WarsawZagreb
Score7660
Notable places within 2 km299122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 1 points.1
WarsawZagreb
Score7980
Price level global4948.5
Daily budget€133€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 3 points.3
WarsawZagreb
Score5962
Monthly daytime high0.9 °C to 25.2 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 83 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months60
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Rainfall, mm
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1
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. Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromWarsawZagreb
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
9 h 0 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

MeasureWarsawZagreb
Official languagePolishCroatian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation118 m127 m
Main airportWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureWarsawZagreb
City population1,862,402767,131
People per km²3,601
Museums within 10 km11727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7642

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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). 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. 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.