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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
The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License.

La Romana or Madrid?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Madrid for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’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, Madrid 5: La Romana leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Madrid 80: Madrid leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Madrid 86: Madrid leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Madrid 85: Madrid leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Madrid 60: La Romana leads by 2 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Madrid 89: Madrid leads by 37 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Madrid 68: Madrid leads by 12 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Madrid 84: Madrid leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Madrid 75: Madrid leads by 47 points.
Affordability. La Romana and Madrid are level on 50.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Madrid 77: Madrid leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Madrid 36: La Romana 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 Madrid.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaMadrid
Official languageSpanishSpanish
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 m663 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaMadrid
City population139,2383,506,730
People per km²5125,801
Museums within 10 km088
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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.