VacationSelector

Florence or Rovaniemi?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

FlorenceRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance78 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Florence leads by 38 points.38
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score5921
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,29980
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1514
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 62 points.62
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score8220
Museums within 10 km1328
Museums within 2 km of centre937
Share of museums within 2 km %7088
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Florence leads by 52 points.52
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score564
Drinking venues within 4 km81852
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre59942
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7381
Nightclubs within 4 km343
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score3816
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 31 points.31
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score5221
Tourist attractions within 2 km302
Park area within 2 km86 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 50 points.50
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score7525
Notable places within 2 km29217
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 12 points.12
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score6856
Price level global64.981.6
Daily budget€155€184
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceRovaniemi
Score6843
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months25
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Rovaniemi
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 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

MeasureFlorenceRovaniemi
Official languageItalianFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m88 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceRovaniemi
City population360,93065,329
People per km²3,5289
Museums within 10 km1406
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6216

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.