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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
AarhusYour rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Rovinj?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Aarhus for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Aarhus’s own page.

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Aarhus 34, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Rovinj 50: Aarhus leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Rovinj 38: Aarhus leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Rovinj 25: Aarhus leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Rovinj 60: Rovinj leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Rovinj 52: Aarhus leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Rovinj 55: Aarhus leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Rovinj 28: Aarhus leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Rovinj 36: Rovinj leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Rovinj 15: Aarhus leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Rovinj 42: Aarhus leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Rovinj.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Aarhus
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Aarhus in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
17 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Aarhus's temperatures are measured 30 km from the centre, at Tirstrup.

Aarhus has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusRovinj
Official languageDanishCroatian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m0 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusRovinj
City population290,59812,968
People per km²3,193-
Museums within 10 km171
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.