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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 City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

La Romana or Valencia?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Valencia for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: La Romana leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Valencia 60: La Romana leads by 2 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 18 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 19 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 29 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Valencia 42: La Romana leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Valencia.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

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

Valencia
Best match
65match

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 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

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaValencia
City population139,238840,792
People per km²5126,242
Museums within 10 km045
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.