VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Rovaniemi?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance13 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 56 points.56
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score7721
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,71480
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 40 points.40
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score6020
Museums within 10 km898
Museums within 2 km of centre487
Share of museums within 2 km %5488
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 55 points.55
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score594
Drinking venues within 4 km93052
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6281
Nightclubs within 4 km413
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 33 points.33
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score4916
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 32 points.32
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score5321
Tourist attractions within 2 km162
Park area within 2 km75 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 29 points.29
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score5425
Notable places within 2 km8817
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovaniemi leads by 13 points.13
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score4356
Price level global10081.6
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
PhiladelphiaRovaniemi
Score6043
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
Rovaniemi
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 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 fromPhiladelphiaRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 140 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BerlinBER
8 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 40 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaRovaniemi
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
Elevation12 m88 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaRovaniemi
City population1,603,79765,329
People per km²4,3399
Museums within 10 km546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7516

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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). 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.