VacationSelector

Paris or Rovaniemi?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
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.

ParisRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Paris and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
ParisRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km213
Coast distance149 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 69 points.69
ParisRovaniemi
Score9021
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,73280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3314
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 56 points.56
ParisRovaniemi
Score7620
Museums within 10 km1858
Museums within 2 km of centre657
Share of museums within 2 km %3588
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 84 points.84
ParisRovaniemi
Score884
Drinking venues within 4 km3,79652
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,69442
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4581
Nightclubs within 4 km2013
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 32 points.32
ParisRovaniemi
Score4816
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km82 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 54 points.54
ParisRovaniemi
Score7521
Tourist attractions within 2 km892
Park area within 2 km82 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 69 points.69
ParisRovaniemi
Score9425
Notable places within 2 km86517
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 6 points.6
ParisRovaniemi
Score6256
Price level global73.781.6
Daily budget€160€184
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 23 points.23
ParisRovaniemi
Score6643
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months15
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 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 fromParisRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€115-156
CDG · 22 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
€108-163
CDG · 22 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
NiceNCE
1 h 30 m
€86-132
ORY · 14 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
IvaloIVL
3 h 45 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
50 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
€216-403
CDG · 22 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

MeasureParisRovaniemi
Official languageFrenchFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation27 m88 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisRovaniemi
City population2,103,77865,329
People per km²19,9609
Museums within 10 km2516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16916

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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.