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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach or Rovinj?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Huntington Beach for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Huntington Beach’s own page.

Choose Rovinj for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Huntington Beach and Rovinj are level on 70.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Rovinj 25: Huntington Beach leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Rovinj 60: Rovinj leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Rovinj 52: Huntington Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Rovinj 28: Huntington Beach leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Rovinj 36: Rovinj leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Rovinj 15: Huntington Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Rovinj.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachRovinj
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m0 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachRovinj
City population198,71112,968
People per km²2,406-
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.