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The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Johannesburg by K, Pexels License; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

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. Johannesburg 5, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Johannesburg 58, Rovinj 50: Johannesburg leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Johannesburg 56, Rovinj 38: Johannesburg leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Johannesburg 62, Rovinj 25: Johannesburg leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Johannesburg 55, Rovinj 60: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Johannesburg 52, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Johannesburg 42, Rovinj 52: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Johannesburg 18, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Johannesburg 58, Rovinj 28: Johannesburg leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Johannesburg 72, Rovinj 36: Johannesburg leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Johannesburg 55, Rovinj 15: Johannesburg leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Johannesburg 28, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Johannesburg and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Johannesburg
47match

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

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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. Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJohannesburgRovinj
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageCroatian
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1,753 m0 m
Main airportO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre84 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureJohannesburgRovinj
City population4,803,26212,968
People per km²2,922-
Museums within 10 km141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.