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Independent · Free to use · No account needed

We map the world's zoos,
one animal at a time.

Zooplanner is a free, independent guide to the zoos, safari parks and wildlife centres of the world — and to the animals living in them. Opening hours, ticket prices, activities and the full species list, gathered onto one page per zoo instead of scattered across a dozen sites in half a dozen languages.

We are not a booking site and we do not sell tickets. We are the page you open before you decide where to go.

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815 Zoos & wildlife parks
34 Countries covered
7,371 Animal species
42,244 Animal–zoo connections

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Our story

Planning a day at the zoo should not take an evening

815 zoos and wildlife parks across 34 countries — and still counting.

Zooplanner started with an ordinary problem. A child asks to see a red panda, and there is no straightforward way to find out which zoo within driving distance actually has one. You end up with eleven browser tabs open, each on a different zoo's website, each organised differently, several of them in a language you do not read — and after an hour you still are not sure whether the place is open on a Monday in November.

The information exists. It is just never in one place, never in the same shape twice, and almost never comparable. A zoo will publish its ticket prices as a PDF, its animal list as a photo gallery, and its winter hours in a news post from two seasons ago. Nobody was putting that together for the whole world — only for the handful of famous zoos that already get all the attention.

So we built the thing we wanted to use. One page per zoo, with the practical details up top and the animals below. One page per species, with the zoos that keep it. A map that starts where you are. And — because this is the part everyone actually needs — the ability to go from “we want to see a red panda” to “here is the nearest zoo that has one, and it opens at ten” in about fifteen seconds.

Today Zooplanner covers 815 zoos and wildlife parks across 34 countries, and we are still adding. A small regional wildlife park gets documented to exactly the same standard as a famous capital-city zoo, because that regional park is very often the one you can reach on a Sunday.

What we do

Four ways to plan a visit

Everything on Zooplanner answers the same two questions: where should we go, and what will we see when we get there?

Zoo profiles Every zoo gets one page: opening hours by season, ticket prices in your own currency, the activities and feedings worth timing your day around, photos, visitor ratings, and the full list of animals kept there. No booking funnel to wade through just to find out what time the gates close. The Zoopedia An encyclopedia of 7,371 species — habitat, diet, weight, lifespan and conservation status — where every entry is linked to the zoos that keep the animal. Filter by continent, biome, family or diet and work backwards from the animal to the visit. Zoos near you An interactive map that puts you in the middle and sorts by real distance, not by who paid for the top spot. Filter it by the animal your kids are asking about, and drive to the closest place that genuinely has one. Rankings & comparisons “The best zoos in Denmark”, “where to see a snow leopard in Europe” — written comparisons drawn from the same underlying data as the zoo pages, so the shortlist and the detail page can never quietly disagree with each other.

How we work

Every fact traces back to the zoo itself

A wrong opening time ruins a family's day out, so we would rather publish less than publish something we cannot stand behind.

  1. 1

    Straight from the source

    Prices, hours, activities and animal lists come from what the zoo itself publishes — in its own language, which we then record in English so two zoos in two countries can finally be compared side by side.

  2. 2

    Checked before it publishes

    Photos are matched to the species they claim to show. Duplicate and overly specific animal names are merged into one entry. Anything that does not survive review is held back rather than published with a shrug.

  3. 3

    Kept current

    Zoos change prices every season, close for winter, and gain and lose animals constantly. Pages get revisited so they do not quietly drift out of date — and a blank field always beats a confident guess.

What we stand for

Four rules we don't bend

They cost us pages, features and the occasional easy shortcut. We keep them anyway.

Animal welfare comes first

The best modern zoos do serious conservation work — breeding programmes, reintroductions, field research. Other places trade on the word without doing any of it. Where we can establish how a collection actually treats its animals, we say so plainly, and we would rather send a visitor to the better zoo.

Accuracy beats volume

It would be easy to fill every empty field with something plausible and look far more complete than we are. A missing price is a minor annoyance; a wrong one sends a family to a closed gate. When we cannot establish a fact, the field stays empty.

Free, with no wall

No account, no subscription, no “sign in to see prices”. Every zoo page and every species page is open to everyone, on every device, including the phone you are holding in the car park.

Global, not just famous

Big-name zoos are already covered by everyone. We put the same effort into the small regional park two towns over — and for most visitors, most weekends, that is the one that matters.