VacationSelector

Galway or Rovinj?

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

Your match

Galway
✓ Best match
39
match

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

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

GalwayRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 22 points.22
GalwayRovinj
Score5173
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1355
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Galway leads by 10 points.10
GalwayRovinj
Score3727
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2014
Museums & heritage. Rovinj leads by 8 points.8
GalwayRovinj
Score2028
Museums within 10 km55
Museums within 2 km of centre54
Share of museums within 2 km %10080
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Galway leads by 17 points.17
GalwayRovinj
Score269
Drinking venues within 4 km18575
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre15366
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8388
Nightclubs within 4 km85
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 45 points.45
GalwayRovinj
Score5510
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8538
Park area within 2 km65 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Galway leads by 6 points.6
GalwayRovinj
Score2519
Tourist attractions within 2 km56
Park area within 2 km65 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Galway leads by 22 points.22
GalwayRovinj
Score220
Notable places within 2 km142
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 23 points.23
GalwayRovinj
Score5780
Price level global80.248.5
Daily budget€187€138
Year-round weather. Rovinj leads by 11 points.11
GalwayRovinj
Score5465
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
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
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
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. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayRovinj
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 25 m
€170-187
2 stops
TRS · 84 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
TSF · 129 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
TSF · 129 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 40 m
€107-148
1 stop
TSF · 129 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

MeasureGalwayRovinj
Official languageEnglish, IrishCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m0 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayRovinj
City population83,45612,968
People per km²1,563
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2522
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). 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.