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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 glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden, St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg, FloridaThe glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; St. Petersburg, Florida by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Romana or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: La Romana leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 3 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 14 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: La Romana leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: La Romana 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

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.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaSt. Petersburg, Florida
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 m134 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population139,238258,308
People per km²512725
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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.