VacationSelector

Genoa or Rovinj?

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

Your match

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Genoa if you want a city as well as a coast: many more museums, restaurants and bars near the centre, more notable places within walking distance, and 8% of the land around it protected for day trips.

Choose Rovinj if the plan is swimming and quiet evenings: 55 beaches nearby, a shorter list of places to drink, and 3 theme parks within reach where Genoa has none.

Scoreboard

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

GenoaRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Genoa and Rovinj are level on 73.
GenoaRovinj
Score7373
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km3755
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 23 points.23
GenoaRovinj
Score5027
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1414
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 27 points.27
GenoaRovinj
Score5528
Museums within 10 km475
Museums within 2 km of centre334
Share of museums within 2 km %7080
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 41 points.41
GenoaRovinj
Score509
Drinking venues within 4 km63775
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre41966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6688
Nightclubs within 4 km175
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 25 points.25
GenoaRovinj
Score3510
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6138
Park area within 2 km29 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 19 points.19
GenoaRovinj
Score3819
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km29 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 61 points.61
GenoaRovinj
Score610
Notable places within 2 km1302
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 12 points.12
GenoaRovinj
Score6880
Price level global64.948.5
Daily budget€155€138
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaRovinj
Score7365
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm51 mm to 125 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

Where they differ

Genoa has many times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, so days can be built on foot, plus many times as many museums, restaurants and places to drink, and about three times as many nightclubs. Day trips work better too: 8% of the surrounding land is protected against 2% around Rovinj.

Rovinj answers with the coast: 55 beaches nearby against Genoa's 37, and 3 theme parks within reach where Genoa has none.

Where they are alike

Swimming is the common ground: the sea meets the centre in Genoa and sits 1km from it in Rovinj, both have four months of sea at 21°C or more, and both have dozens of beaches within reach.

Weather and cost run close behind. Both are at their warmest in high summer and at their coolest in January, and the national price estimates behind them, Italy's and Croatia's, are not far apart.

Which traveller are you?

For a museum-and-restaurant trip, Genoa: many times as many museums as Rovinj, many times as many restaurants near the centre, and enough notable places within walking distance to fill several days on foot.

Families are better served in Genoa too, with about three times as many tourist attractions and about three times as much park space near the centre. Rovinj's counter is 3 theme parks within reach, where Genoa has none.

Swimmers who want early nights should take Rovinj: 55 beaches nearby, the sea 1km from the centre, and far fewer bars and clubs than Genoa, so evenings stay quiet.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures are national estimates for Italy and Croatia, price levels for restaurants and hotels rather than measurements of either city. The gap between them is not evidence that one place costs more on the ground, and a coastal town of 13,000 in high season need not track its country's average.

Equal standing on swimming hides different pressure: Rovinj's 55 beaches serve a town of that size, and the warm-sea months are the same in both, so a quieter visit means the wet end of the year, when November brings more than 120mm to each and Rovinj has few places to drink indoors.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
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. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Genoa suits May to September, and its high summer is the drier of the two: 12mm in its driest month against 61mm in Rovinj, with highs near 27°C. The autumn shoulder is drier too, 72mm against 114mm in September.

Rovinj is at its best in July and August, when highs reach 29°C and the sea is a shade warmer than Genoa's. Rain is heavier right through its season, winter days stay colder than Genoa's, and it carries the wetter autumn of the two.

Getting there

Flying fromGenoaRovinj
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€223-292
2 stops
GOA · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 111 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 15 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 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 2026-09 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

MeasureGenoaRovinj
Official languageItalianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m0 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaRovinj
City population558,74512,968
People per km²2,325–
Museums within 10 km511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4122
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.