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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beijing 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 Beijing for

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

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches

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. Beijing 6, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Rovinj 50: Beijing leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Rovinj 38: Beijing leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Rovinj 25: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing and Rovinj are level on 60.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Rovinj 68: Beijing leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Rovinj 52: Beijing leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Rovinj 55: Beijing leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Rovinj 28: Beijing leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Rovinj 36: Beijing leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Rovinj 15: Beijing leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Rovinj 42: Beijing leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

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

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingRovinj
Official languagePutonghuaCroatian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m0 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingRovinj
City population21,893,09512,968
People per km²1,334-
Museums within 10 km831
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.