VacationSelector

York or Zagreb?

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

Your match

York
41
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Zagreb
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

YorkZagreb
Beaches & swimming. York and Zagreb are level on 0.
YorkZagreb
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km28
Coast distance50 km117 km
Water distance
Places to eat. York leads by 2 points.2
YorkZagreb
Score5452
Restaurants within 2 km of centre361374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3127
Museums & heritage. York leads by 1 points.1
YorkZagreb
Score4645
Museums within 10 km1841
Museums within 2 km of centre1640
Share of museums within 2 km %8998
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 18 points.18
YorkZagreb
Score4361
Drinking venues within 4 km4501,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre353571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km1463
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 1 points.1
YorkZagreb
Score3334
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 15 points.15
YorkZagreb
Score4328
Tourist attractions within 2 km137
Park area within 2 km42 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 21 points.21
YorkZagreb
Score3960
Notable places within 2 km37122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 26 points.26
YorkZagreb
Score5480
Price level global84.948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 6 points.6
YorkZagreb
Score5662
Monthly daytime high6.7 °C to 20.9 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 66 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months10
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Rainfall, mm
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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. York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromYorkZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubrovnikDBV
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
5 h 15 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

MeasureYorkZagreb
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation25 m127 m
Main airportLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureYorkZagreb
City population208,400767,131
People per km²766
Museums within 10 km2427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5442

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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). 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.