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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bergen 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 Bergen for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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. Bergen 20, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Rovinj 38: Bergen leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Rovinj 25: Bergen leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Rovinj 60: Bergen leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, Rovinj 52: Bergen leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Rovinj 55: Bergen leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Rovinj 28: Bergen leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Rovinj 36: Rovinj leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Rovinj 15: Bergen leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bergen
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 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. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenRovinj
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiCroatian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation5 m0 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenRovinj
City population291,18912,968
People per km²3,339-
Museums within 10 km311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.