Seventeen state routes are registered to Split and central Dalmatia, but only ten of them sail from Split itself. The other seven leave from Trogir, Drvenik, Ploče, Makarska or Orebić, and reaching one of those is a drive down the coast road rather than a walk to the quay. The terminal is in the city, … Read more
Croatian accommodation is overwhelmingly private apartments rather than hotels, unusually so for Europe. In Split a hotel buys two specific things: someone at a desk when your boat lands late, and reliable air conditioning through the 16.5 July days that reach 30°C. Otherwise the apartment stock wins. Most of what you are scrolling is not … Read more
Private travel in Croatia buys one thing the scheduled network cannot sell: a dock and a date. Sixteen services reach Hvar island and only one of the two that carry a car docks at Hvar town. The Dubrovnik catamaran to Mljet’s Polače runs 3 July to 30 August. Where the scheduled network lands you short … Read more
Venice crossings land in Istria, and Istria is not an island network. Just 2 of the 68 routes in Croatia’s 2026 coastal register touch the peninsula. Everything you came for — Rovinj, Pula, Poreč, the hill towns — is reached by road, not by boat. What the register says about Istria This matters because the … Read more
November is the wettest month of the year on the Dalmatian coast: 142.3 mm at Dubrovnik, 101.7 mm at Split, and 115.5 mm on the long Split Marjan record. The sea still holds 16.4°C at Split — warmer than it manages in April. The rain is the story Croatia’s coastal climate is often described as … Read more
Zagreb appears on none of the 68 routes in Croatia’s 2026 coastal register. There is no ferry network here to be excluded from, which makes this the one Croatian airport where hiring a car removes nothing. The question is where the car stops being free of consequences. Nothing to be excluded from Everywhere else in … Read more
Two numbers should shape a Croatia trip taken at an unhurried pace: how hot it is, and how often the boat runs. Split records 16.5 days at or above 30 °C in July and 1.1 in September. Vis has two sailings a day off-season. The month is the accessibility decision Most advice about travelling Croatia … Read more