VacationSelector

Barcelona or Rovinj?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

BarcelonaRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 8 points.8
BarcelonaRovinj
Score6573
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km2055
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 63 points.63
BarcelonaRovinj
Score9027
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4114
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 40 points.40
BarcelonaRovinj
Score6828
Museums within 10 km1055
Museums within 2 km of centre494
Share of museums within 2 km %4780
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 73 points.73
BarcelonaRovinj
Score829
Drinking venues within 4 km2,71175
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,64166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6188
Nightclubs within 4 km2455
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 40 points.40
BarcelonaRovinj
Score5010
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5138
Park area within 2 km49 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 46 points.46
BarcelonaRovinj
Score6519
Tourist attractions within 2 km606
Park area within 2 km49 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 73 points.73
BarcelonaRovinj
Score730
Notable places within 2 km2582
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 9 points.9
BarcelonaRovinj
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 13 points.13
BarcelonaRovinj
Score7865
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm51 mm to 125 mm
Dry months50
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaRovinj
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 15 m
€100-142
1 stop
BCN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
€121-137
BCN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 111 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 40 m
€116-164
BCN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 111 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
9 h 55 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBarcelonaRovinj
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
Elevation9 m0 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaRovinj
City population1,731,64912,968
People per km²17,094
Museums within 10 km951
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre12822
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.