VacationSelector

Pisa or Rovaniemi?

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

Your match

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

PisaRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
PisaRovaniemi
Score210
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance10 km99 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Pisa leads by 13 points.13
PisaRovaniemi
Score3421
Restaurants within 2 km of centre37980
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km914
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 35 points.35
PisaRovaniemi
Score5520
Museums within 10 km278
Museums within 2 km of centre227
Share of museums within 2 km %8188
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Pisa leads by 24 points.24
PisaRovaniemi
Score284
Drinking venues within 4 km23252
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20342
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8881
Nightclubs within 4 km33
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 23 points.23
PisaRovaniemi
Score3916
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km40 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 26 points.26
PisaRovaniemi
Score4721
Tourist attractions within 2 km202
Park area within 2 km40 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 22 points.22
PisaRovaniemi
Score4725
Notable places within 2 km5817
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 12 points.12
PisaRovaniemi
Score6856
Price level global64.981.6
Daily budget€155€184
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 27 points.27
PisaRovaniemi
Score7043
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months25
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Rovaniemi
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 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 fromPisaRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
FLR · 65 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
EBA · 107 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasurePisaRovaniemi
Official languageItalianFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation4 m88 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaRovaniemi
City population88,73765,329
People per km²4799
Museums within 10 km276
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2916
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.