VacationSelector

Maastricht or Rovaniemi?

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

Your match

Maastricht
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

MaastrichtRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km613
Coast distance118 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 27 points.27
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score4821
Restaurants within 2 km of centre33880
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 33 points.33
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score5320
Museums within 10 km238
Museums within 2 km of centre137
Share of museums within 2 km %5788
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score304
Drinking venues within 4 km22352
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre18242
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8281
Nightclubs within 4 km133
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 21 points.21
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score3716
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km33 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 25 points.25
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score4621
Tourist attractions within 2 km152
Park area within 2 km33 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Maastricht leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score3625
Notable places within 2 km3217
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score5856
Price level global79.281.6
Daily budget€181€184
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 16 points.16
MaastrichtRovaniemi
Score5943
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months05
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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Rovaniemi
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 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 fromMaastrichtRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 40 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
IvaloIVL
3 h 15 m
no fares
DUS · 90 km
50 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMaastrichtRovaniemi
Official languageDutchFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m88 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtRovaniemi
City population120,22765,329
People per km²2,0009
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3316

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.