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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
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Romana or Miami Beach?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Miami Beach 52: Miami Beach leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Miami Beach 52: La Romana leads by 10 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Miami Beach 60: Miami Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Miami Beach 58: Miami Beach leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 27 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Miami Beach 20: La Romana leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Miami Beach 48: Miami Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Miami Beach.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaMiami Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation10 m1 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaMiami Beach
City population139,23882,890
People per km²5122,109
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.