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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Melbourne 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 Melbourne for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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. Melbourne 50, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Rovinj 50: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Rovinj 38: Melbourne leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Rovinj 25: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Rovinj 60: Melbourne leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Rovinj 52: Melbourne leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Rovinj 55: Melbourne leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Rovinj 28: Melbourne leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Rovinj 36: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Rovinj 15: Melbourne leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Rovinj 42: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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

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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneRovinj
Official languageEnglishCroatian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m0 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneRovinj
City population5,350,70512,968
People per km²535-
Museums within 10 km431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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.

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.