Interlaken or Rovinj?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.
Wins on beaches & swimming and 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 Interlaken if the point of the trip is mountains and walking. About 19% of the land nearby is protected, and the centre has many times more notable places within walking distance, so short days out need little planning.
Choose Rovinj if swimming matters. It has 55 beaches nearby against Interlaken's 12, a sea warm enough for late-summer swimming, and milder winters.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 73 points.73
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 73 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 4 |
| Beaches 10 km | 12 | 55 |
| Coast distance | 713 km | 1 km |
| Water distance | — | 1 km |
Places to eat. Interlaken leads by 2 points.2
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 29 | 27 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 118 | 130 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 17 | 14 |
Museums & heritage. Rovinj leads by 5 points.5
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 23 | 28 |
| Museums within 10 km | 5 | 5 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 2 | 4 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 40 | 80 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 2 | 1 |
Nightlife. Rovinj leads by 5 points.5
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 4 | 9 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 42 | 75 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 38 | 66 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 90 | 88 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 3 | 5 |
Nature & day trips. Interlaken leads by 17 points.17
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 27 | 10 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 19 | 2 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 38 |
| Park area within 2 km | 5 hectares | 8 hectares |
Good for families. Rovinj leads by 5 points.5
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 14 | 19 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 11 | 6 |
| Park area within 2 km | 5 hectares | 8 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 0 | 3 |
Sights concentration. Interlaken leads by 22 points.22
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 22 | 0 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 14 | 2 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 45 points.45
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 35 | 80 |
| Price level global | 110.5 | 48.5 |
| Daily budget | €248 | €138 |
Year-round weather. Rovinj leads by 8 points.8
| Interlaken | Rovinj | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 57 | 65 |
| Monthly daytime high | 2.8 °C to 23.6 °C | 8.8 °C to 29.1 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 34 mm to 68 mm | 51 mm to 125 mm |
| Dry months | 3 | 0 |
Where they differ
Interlaken is the walking trip. About 19% of the land around it is protected against 2% around Rovinj, and far more notable places sit within walking distance of the centre, where Rovinj's are scattered. It also has twice as many tourist attractions near the centre.
Rovinj is the swimming trip, with 55 beaches nearby against Interlaken's 12 and four months of sea at 21°C or more, which Interlaken has none of. The national price estimates behind them differ, €138 a day for Rovinj's country against €248 for Interlaken's.
Where they are alike
Eating out is where the two are closest. Neither is a restaurant destination: they have a similar number of places to eat near the centre, though Interlaken covers a wider range of kitchens.
Museums, nightlife and family attractions are modest in both. Each has a similar number of museums, Rovinj's sitting tighter around the centre; Interlaken has 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 1. Drinking places and clubs are few in both and sit near the centre.
Which traveller are you?
Anyone whose days are built around hiking and mountain excursions should take Interlaken: 19% of the land around it is protected, and enough notable places sit within walking distance of the centre to fill wet afternoons.
Families who want a beach holiday are better served by Rovinj: 55 beaches nearby, sea at 26°C in August, more park space near the centre and 3 theme parks within reach, where Interlaken has none.
Neither suits a traveller after museums and late nights. Rovinj has about twice as many bars and clubs, all close to the centre; Interlaken counters with more UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €248 and €138, are single national estimates of restaurant and hotel prices, not measurements of Interlaken or Rovinj. A small resort town can sit a long way from its own country's average, in either direction, so the gap between the two national figures is not evidence about what either place will cost you.
No weather station near Interlaken records sunshine hours, so that figure is missing rather than low and one side of the weather comparison is unmeasured. Rovinj's mildest autumn air comes with its heaviest rain, above 110mm a month, while its best swimming months are also the ones when its beaches are busiest.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).
Interlaken works from June to August, with highs of 22-24°C, though those are also its wettest warm months at around 60mm. Spring and early autumn are drier, near 34-38mm, and noticeably cooler for walking.
Rovinj's warm season is longer, holding highs of 22-29°C from May into September, with the sea at 25-26°C in high summer and winter highs near 9-10°C. The cost is autumn rain, above 110mm a month, when Interlaken is drier.
Getting there
| Flying from | Interlaken | Rovinj |
|---|---|---|
| MadridMAD | 2 h 5 m €158-220 1 stop ZRH · 100 km | 2 h 20 m €102-159 VCE · 111 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 1 h 25 m €234-276 ZRH · 100 km | 1 h 45 m €190-215 1 stop VCE · 111 km |
| ViennaVIE | 1 h 25 m €174-215 1 stop ZRH · 100 km | 1 h 10 m €65-121 VCE · 111 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 35 m €110-163 ZRH · 100 km | 2 h 10 m no fares PUY · 31 km |
| RomeFCO, CIA | 1 h 30 m €70-92 ZRH · 100 km | 1 h 10 m no fares TRS · 84 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 6 h 15 m €232-366 1 stop ZRH · 100 km | 5 h 55 m €366-421 2 stops VCE · 111 km |
| MunichMUC | 1 h 0 m no fares ZRH · 100 km | 1 h 5 m €268-289 VCE · 111 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 5 m €606-782 1 stop ZRH · 100 km | 8 h 30 m €637-650 VCE · 111 km |
| BucharestOTP, BBU | 2 h 20 m no fares ZRH · 100 km | 1 h 55 m €50-66 TSF · 129 km |
| BeijingPEK, PKX | 10 h 10 m €710-815 1 stop MXP · 135 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
| Measure | Interlaken | Rovinj |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French, German, Italian, Romansh | Croatian |
| Currency | Swiss Franc (CHF) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CJ230 V, 50 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 571 m | 0 m |
| Main airport | Zürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations | Pula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 10 days | 14 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Interlaken | Rovinj |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 6,123 | 12,968 |
| People per km² | 1,424 | – |
| Museums within 10 km | 3 | 1 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 1 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 22 | 22 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | – | 4 months |
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