VacationSelector

Madrid or Rovaniemi?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MadridRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Madrid and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
MadridRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km413
Coast distance305 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 62 points.62
MadridRovaniemi
Score8321
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,50880
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2814
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 55 points.55
MadridRovaniemi
Score7520
Museums within 10 km978
Museums within 2 km of centre597
Share of museums within 2 km %6188
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 77 points.77
MadridRovaniemi
Score814
Drinking venues within 4 km2,41452
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,49842
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6281
Nightclubs within 4 km3413
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 47 points.47
MadridRovaniemi
Score6316
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 56 points.56
MadridRovaniemi
Score7721
Tourist attractions within 2 km612
Park area within 2 km187 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 50 points.50
MadridRovaniemi
Score7525
Notable places within 2 km28817
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 15 points.15
MadridRovaniemi
Score7156
Price level global60.881.6
Daily budget€122€184
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 29 points.29
MadridRovaniemi
Score7243
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months75
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Rovaniemi
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 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 fromMadridRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€111-148
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 14 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureMadridRovaniemi
Official languageSpanishFinnish, 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 number112112
Elevation663 m88 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridRovaniemi
City population3,506,73065,329
People per km²5,8019
Museums within 10 km886
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre10616

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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.