VacationSelector

London or Rovaniemi?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LondonRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. London and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
LondonRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4713
Coast distance43 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 67 points.67
LondonRovaniemi
Score8821
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,31780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4014
Museums & heritage. London leads by 52 points.52
LondonRovaniemi
Score7220
Museums within 10 km1488
Museums within 2 km of centre497
Share of museums within 2 km %3388
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 91 points.91
LondonRovaniemi
Score954
Drinking venues within 4 km5,32752
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,44342
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4681
Nightclubs within 4 km3123
Nature & day trips. London leads by 24 points.24
LondonRovaniemi
Score4016
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 54 points.54
LondonRovaniemi
Score7521
Tourist attractions within 2 km852
Park area within 2 km84 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. London leads by 64 points.64
LondonRovaniemi
Score8925
Notable places within 2 km64917
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovaniemi leads by 2 points.2
LondonRovaniemi
Score5456
Price level global84.981.6
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. London leads by 20 points.20
LondonRovaniemi
Score6343
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months15
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Rovaniemi
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
IvaloIVL
3 h 30 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
50 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 35 m
€184-208
LHR · 23 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureLondonRovaniemi
Official languageEnglishFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m88 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonRovaniemi
City population8,799,72865,329
People per km²5,5989
Museums within 10 km2156
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11616

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.