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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krakow 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 Krakow for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Krakow 9, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Rovinj 50: Krakow leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Rovinj 38: Krakow leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Rovinj 25: Krakow leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Rovinj 60: Krakow leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Rovinj 68: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Rovinj 52: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Rovinj 55: Krakow leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Rovinj 28: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Rovinj 36: Krakow leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Rovinj 15: Krakow leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 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: Krakow and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

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

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowRovinj
Official languagePolishCroatian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m0 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowRovinj
City population804,23712,968
People per km²2,459-
Museums within 10 km1131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.