Things to Do in Split in Winter

Diocletian's Palace

Eight in the morning, nobody in it. This is the version people come back for.

Diocletian's Palace is free: its lanes, the Peristyle, the domed Vestibule and the central passage through the cellars are open at all hours with no gate. You pay only for interiors — the side halls of the cellars (€10 for adults as of October 2026) and the cathedral, bell tower, crypt, treasury and Temple of Jupiter, ticketed separately. Built around AD 305, it is still full of homes, bars and shops.

Local favourite2 h

Advent in Split 2026

Six weeks of mulled wine and free concerts on the Riva, and genuinely local.

Six weeks of lights, mulled wine, fritule and klapa concerts on the Riva and around the Prokurative. Free, genuinely local rather than tourist-facing, and the best reason to visit Split in winter.

Meštrović Gallery

The best museum in Split, with no queue and the garden to yourself.

The villa Ivan Meštrović built for himself on Marjan's south slope, now the best museum in Split. Sculpture inside, a garden of bronzes with a sea view outside, and the Kaštelet chapel with his wooden reliefs five minutes down the road.

From €121 h 30 min

Escape Rooms in Split

The rainy-day answer, priced per room rather than per head.

A genuinely good rainy-day answer in a city with few of them. Several rooms in and around the old town run in English, take two to six players, and cost €60–80 for the room rather than per person.

From €601 h

Dalmatian Wine Tasting

A palace cellar in January is exactly where you want to be at three.

An hour and a half through Dalmatia's own grapes: plavac mali from Hvar and Pelješac, pošip and grk from Korčula, and the debit and maraština nobody exports. Most tastings run in palace cellars, which is a good place to be at three in the afternoon.

From €301 h 30 min

Marjan Hill

Empty ridge, clear air — just check the bura before committing to Telegrin.

The pine-covered hill on Split's western edge, a fifteen-minute walk from the Riva and the reason the city feels liveable in August. Free, open always, with viewpoints, hermit chapels, swimming coves at the bottom and a proper trail network on top.

Local favourite2 h 30 min

Cathedral of St Domnius & Bell Tower

The oldest cathedral building in the world still in use, and it started life as the mausoleum of the emperor who persecuted the man it is now named after. The bell tower beside it gives you the best view in Split for the price of 183 steps.

Local favouriteFrom €101 h

The Riva

Split's palm-lined seafront promenade, and the city's actual living room. Locals walk it at seven every evening, coffee lasts an hour, and nobody is in a hurry. Free, always open, and the correct place to watch the light go orange on the palace wall.

Local favourite45 min

Night Paddleboarding at Stobreč

Two hours on a board lit from underneath, pushing off Stobreč as the sun goes and paddling into the river mouth in the dark. The LEDs light the bottom through three metres of water, which is the whole point: you can see what is down there.

From €442 h

Sea Kayaking Under Marjan

Three hours paddling the cliffs and hidden coves along Marjan's south shore, with two swim stops and a cave you can only reach by water. The best way to see Split from the side it was built to face, and easy enough for a complete beginner.

Local favouriteFrom €353 h

Split Food & Market Tour

Three and a half hours through the green market, the fish market and four family-run places inside the palace, eating soparnik, pršut, Pag cheese, fresh anchovies and rožata. Enough food to replace lunch, with the context that makes Dalmatian cooking make sense.

Local favouriteFrom €653 h 30 min

A Hajduk Match at Poljud

The most Split thing you can do for ten euros. Poljud is a listed 1979 shell of a stadium, the Torcida have been going since 1950, and a mid-table league game on a Saturday night tells you more about this city than any walking tour will.

Local favouriteFrom €102 h

The Peristyle

The colonnaded courtyard at the centre of Diocletian's Palace, where the emperor appeared to his subjects and where Split now drinks wine on the steps. Free, roofless, and the best-preserved Roman square you can sit down in.

30 min

The Perun Ridge Walk above Strožanac

An hour and a half up the marked path from Strožanac to the chapel of St George, topping out around 441 metres with Split, Kozjak, Mosor and the islands all in view. It is free, it starts at a supermarket, and locals walk it before work.

Local favouriteFree1 h 30 min