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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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. Cardiff 30, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Rovinj 38: Cardiff leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Rovinj 25: Cardiff leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Rovinj 60: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Rovinj 68: Cardiff leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Rovinj 52: Cardiff leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Rovinj 55: Cardiff leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Rovinj 28: Cardiff leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Rovinj 36: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Rovinj 15: Cardiff leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 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

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffRovinj
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m0 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffRovinj
City population383,53612,968
People per km²2,734-
Museums within 10 km91
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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.