VacationSelector

Dubai or Rovinj?

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

Your match

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on 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.

DubaiRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 27 points.27
DubaiRovinj
Score10073
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km5255
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 39 points.39
DubaiRovinj
Score6627
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 10 points.10
DubaiRovinj
Score3828
Museums within 10 km265
Museums within 2 km of centre184
Share of museums within 2 km %6980
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 44 points.44
DubaiRovinj
Score539
Drinking venues within 4 km60175
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre30666
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5188
Nightclubs within 4 km845
Nature & day trips. Dubai leads by 8 points.8
DubaiRovinj
Score1810
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5238
Park area within 2 km13 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 30 points.30
DubaiRovinj
Score4919
Tourist attractions within 2 km376
Park area within 2 km13 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Dubai leads by 37 points.37
DubaiRovinj
Score370
Notable places within 2 km332
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 11 points.11
DubaiRovinj
Score6980
Price level global63.448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 1 points.1
DubaiRovinj
Score6665
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm51 mm to 125 mm
Dry months120
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
No sunshine record
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiRovinj
MadridMAD
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
ViennaVIE
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
4 h 40 m
€263-354
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
MunichMUC
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 111 km
ZurichZRH
6 h 15 m
€237-344
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
5 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
7 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
9 h 55 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 2026-08 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

MeasureDubaiRovinj
Official languageArabicCroatian
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiRovinj
City population3,944,75112,968
Museums within 10 km141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5222
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.