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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montevideo 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 Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • 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. Montevideo 55, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Rovinj 50: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Rovinj 38: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Rovinj 25: Montevideo leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Rovinj 60: Rovinj leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Rovinj 52: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Rovinj 28: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Rovinj 36: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Rovinj 15: Montevideo leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Rovinj
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoRovinj
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m0 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoRovinj
City population1,302,95412,968
People per km²1,785-
Museums within 10 km361
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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). 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. 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.