VacationSelector

Cardiff or Rovinj?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

CardiffRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 27 points.27
CardiffRovinj
Score4673
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km855
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 33 points.33
CardiffRovinj
Score6027
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffRovinj
Score3928
Museums within 10 km615
Museums within 2 km of centre64
Share of museums within 2 km %1080
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 39 points.39
CardiffRovinj
Score489
Drinking venues within 4 km53675
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre39566
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7488
Nightclubs within 4 km355
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 40 points.40
CardiffRovinj
Score5010
Protected land share 50 km %182
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6838
Park area within 2 km88 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 13 points.13
CardiffRovinj
Score3219
Tourist attractions within 2 km46
Park area within 2 km88 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 45 points.45
CardiffRovinj
Score450
Notable places within 2 km512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 26 points.26
CardiffRovinj
Score5480
Price level global84.948.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Rovinj leads by 11 points.11
CardiffRovinj
Score5465
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm51 mm to 125 mm
Dry months00
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffRovinj
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 111 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 111 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TSF · 129 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
8 h 45 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 2026-09 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

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 centre8 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre5522
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.