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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Medellin or Rovinj?

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 Medellin for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’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. Medellin 5, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Rovinj 50: Medellin leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Rovinj 38: Medellin leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Rovinj 25: Medellin leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Rovinj 60: Medellin leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Rovinj 52: Rovinj leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Medellin and Rovinj are level on 55.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Rovinj 28: Medellin leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Rovinj 36: Medellin leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Rovinj 15: Medellin leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Medellin
Best match
51match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 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

Medellin 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.

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj 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. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinRovinj
Official languageSpanishCroatian
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number123112
Elevation1,405 m0 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinRovinj
City population2,529,40312,968
People per km²6,644-
Museums within 10 km141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.