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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Clearwater 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 Clearwater for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Clearwater 90, Rovinj 70: Clearwater leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Rovinj 25: Clearwater leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Rovinj 60: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Rovinj 52: Clearwater leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Rovinj 28: Rovinj leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Rovinj 36: Rovinj leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Rovinj 15: Clearwater leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Clearwater
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Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterRovinj
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
Elevation9 m0 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterRovinj
City population117,29212,968
People per km²1,154-
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.