VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Rovaniemi?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km713
Coast distance0 km99 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Fort Lauderdale leads by 24 points.24
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score4521
Restaurants within 2 km of centre37180
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1814
Museums & heritage. Fort Lauderdale and Rovaniemi are level on 20.
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score2020
Museums within 10 km148
Museums within 2 km of centre67
Share of museums within 2 km %4388
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 30 points.30
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score344
Drinking venues within 4 km25952
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre14442
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5681
Nightclubs within 4 km183
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 65 points.65
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score8116
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Rovaniemi leads by 2 points.2
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score1921
Tourist attractions within 2 km22
Park area within 2 km45 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Rovaniemi leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score025
Notable places within 2 km217
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovaniemi leads by 13 points.13
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score4356
Price level global10081.6
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 33 points.33
Fort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Score7643
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months05
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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 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 fromFort LauderdaleRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
4 h 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleRovaniemi
Official languageFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m88 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleRovaniemi
City population182,76065,329
People per km²1,8299
Museums within 10 km66
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2516
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.