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The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bethany Beach 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 Bethany Beach for

  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Bethany Beach 72, Rovinj 70: Bethany Beach leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Bethany Beach 35, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Bethany Beach 10, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Bethany Beach 12, Rovinj 25: Rovinj leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bethany Beach 48, Rovinj 60: Rovinj leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Bethany Beach 45, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Bethany Beach 66, Rovinj 52: Bethany Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Bethany Beach 33, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bethany Beach and Rovinj are level on 28.
Affordability. Bethany Beach 30, Rovinj 36: Rovinj leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bethany Beach 14, Rovinj 15: Rovinj leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bethany Beach 33, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bethany Beach and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Rovinj
Best match
45match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach 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. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBethany BeachRovinj
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBethany BeachRovinj
City population95412,968
People per km²318-
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.