VacationSelector

New York or Rovaniemi?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

New YorkRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkRovaniemi
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1713
Coast distance1 km99 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 74 points.74
New YorkRovaniemi
Score9521
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,03280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3814
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 40 points.40
New YorkRovaniemi
Score6020
Museums within 10 km1198
Museums within 2 km of centre317
Share of museums within 2 km %2688
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 85 points.85
New YorkRovaniemi
Score894
Drinking venues within 4 km4,15952
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,01542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4881
Nightclubs within 4 km1923
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 23 points.23
New YorkRovaniemi
Score3916
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 51 points.51
New YorkRovaniemi
Score7221
Tourist attractions within 2 km372
Park area within 2 km134 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. New York leads by 49 points.49
New YorkRovaniemi
Score7425
Notable places within 2 km26817
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovaniemi leads by 13 points.13
New YorkRovaniemi
Score4356
Price level global10081.6
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkRovaniemi
Score5843
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 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 fromNew YorkRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 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

MeasureNew YorkRovaniemi
Official languageFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m88 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkRovaniemi
City population8,804,19065,329
People per km²7,2569
Museums within 10 km1576
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre13216
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.