VacationSelector

Alicante or Rovinj?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteRovinj
Score7773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km3355
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 39 points.39
AlicanteRovinj
Score6627
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteRovinj
Score4228
Museums within 10 km145
Museums within 2 km of centre114
Share of museums within 2 km %7980
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 42 points.42
AlicanteRovinj
Score519
Drinking venues within 4 km59175
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre48866
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8388
Nightclubs within 4 km545
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 30 points.30
AlicanteRovinj
Score4010
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5938
Park area within 2 km60 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 23 points.23
AlicanteRovinj
Score4219
Tourist attractions within 2 km136
Park area within 2 km60 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Alicante leads by 26 points.26
AlicanteRovinj
Score260
Notable places within 2 km182
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 9 points.9
AlicanteRovinj
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteRovinj
Score8765
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm51 mm to 125 mm
Dry months110
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Rovinj
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteRovinj
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 45 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
3 h 25 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
€178-205
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 111 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
TSF · 129 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 111 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteRovinj
Official languageSpanishCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteRovinj
City population366,22112,968
People per km²1,819
Museums within 10 km81
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5222
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.