Zagreb

About

Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately 158 m (518 ft) above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city itself had a population of 767,131, while the population of Zagreb metropolitan area is 1,086,528.

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Why visit

Visit Zagreb for music, theater, and performance, archaeology and older urban layers, landscape, water, gardens, and nearby routes. Use Zagreb to connect cultural institutions with streets, food, public space, and nearby landscape rather than treating each stop separately. A good itinerary should stay selective. Use one main anchor in Zagreb, then build outward only to places that sit naturally nearby. In Zagreb, the route gains clarity when the spaces between formal stops are allowed to matter. Use the surroundings of Zagreb deliberately: they should clarify the place, not simply add movement.

When to avoid

Do not visit Zagreb expecting every useful stop to be close together or easy to improvise. In Zagreb, a good plan starts with the constraints, not with the number of sights. A safer and clearer day in Zagreb usually comes from grouping nearby sites and avoiding unnecessary late or awkward transfers. If the main interest is one nearby site, it may be better to treat Zagreb as a base rather than the whole destination.

The next week in Zagreb

7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).

Year-round climate

Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).

Airports near Zagreb

2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Zagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG) at 10 km.

Getting around Zagreb

Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.

Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.