VacationSelector

Istanbul or Rovinj?

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

Your match

Istanbul
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

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

IstanbulRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 30 points.30
IstanbulRovinj
Score4373
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km255
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 43 points.43
IstanbulRovinj
Score7027
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,086130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2014
Museums & heritage. Istanbul leads by 38 points.38
IstanbulRovinj
Score6628
Museums within 10 km1455
Museums within 2 km of centre714
Share of museums within 2 km %4980
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 70 points.70
IstanbulRovinj
Score799
Drinking venues within 4 km2,26675
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,17666
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5288
Nightclubs within 4 km2215
Nature & day trips. Istanbul leads by 15 points.15
IstanbulRovinj
Score2510
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4838
Park area within 2 km60 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Istanbul leads by 48 points.48
IstanbulRovinj
Score6719
Tourist attractions within 2 km686
Park area within 2 km60 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Istanbul leads by 75 points.75
IstanbulRovinj
Score750
Notable places within 2 km2852
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 9 points.9
IstanbulRovinj
Score8980
Price level global35.248.5
Daily budget€100€138
Year-round weather. Istanbul leads by 4 points.4
IstanbulRovinj
Score6965
Monthly daytime high9.2 °C to 29.7 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 101 mm51 mm to 125 mm
Dry months40
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
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Istanbul
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
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. Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIstanbulRovinj
MadridMAD
3 h 50 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€161-174
IST · 36 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
€177-220
IST · 36 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 111 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 10 m
€106-133
IST · 36 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 5 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 35 m
€110-186
IST · 36 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 5 m
€608-794
IST · 36 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
MunichMUC
2 h 30 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 111 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 0 m
no fares
IST · 36 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 2026-08 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

MeasureIstanbulRovinj
Official languageTurkishCroatian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m0 m
Main airportİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureIstanbulRovinj
City population15,655,92412,968
People per km²2,930
Museums within 10 km721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6222
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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. 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.