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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
MaastrichtSint Servaasbrug over the Maas

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Romana or Maastricht?

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 La Romana for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Maastricht for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Maastricht’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. La Romana 84, Maastricht 8: La Romana leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Maastricht 58: Maastricht leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Maastricht 42: Maastricht leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Maastricht 58: La Romana leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Maastricht 77: Maastricht leads by 25 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Maastricht 55: La Romana leads by 1 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Maastricht 74: Maastricht leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 32 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Maastricht 38: La Romana leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Maastricht 40: Maastricht leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Maastricht 52: Maastricht leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Maastricht.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Maastricht
Best match
52match

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.

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaMaastricht
Official languageSpanishDutch
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation10 m49 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaMaastricht
City population139,238120,227
People per km²5122,000
Museums within 10 km021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.