VacationSelector

Pisa or Rovinj?

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 sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Pisa if you want a walkable centre of notable places, museums for a wet day and protected countryside within day-trip reach, accepting that the sea is a 10km trip rather than a stroll.

Choose Rovinj if swimming is the point of the holiday: the sea is 1km from the centre and 55 beaches lie nearby, with much less to occupy you away from the water.

Scoreboard

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

PisaRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 52 points.52
PisaRovinj
Score2173
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km155
Coast distance10 km1 km
Water distance10 km1 km
Places to eat. Pisa leads by 7 points.7
PisaRovinj
Score3427
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km914
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 27 points.27
PisaRovinj
Score5528
Museums within 10 km275
Museums within 2 km of centre224
Share of museums within 2 km %8180
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Pisa leads by 19 points.19
PisaRovinj
Score289
Drinking venues within 4 km23275
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20366
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8888
Nightclubs within 4 km35
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 29 points.29
PisaRovinj
Score3910
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6538
Park area within 2 km40 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 28 points.28
PisaRovinj
Score4719
Tourist attractions within 2 km206
Park area within 2 km40 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 47 points.47
PisaRovinj
Score470
Notable places within 2 km582
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 12 points.12
PisaRovinj
Score6880
Price level global64.948.5
Daily budget€155€138
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
PisaRovinj
Score7065
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm51 mm to 125 mm
Dry months20
0255075100

Where they differ

Pisa packs many more notable places within walking distance of its centre, and many times as many museums, with 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Rovinj's 1. It also has the greener surroundings: 9% of the land around it is protected against 2% around Rovinj, and far more park space close to the centre.

Rovinj is built for swimming. The sea is 1km from its centre where Pisa's is 10km away, and there are 55 beaches nearby against one at Pisa.

Where they are alike

Both run on a similar yearly rhythm: Pisa's daytime highs span 11-30°C and Rovinj's 9-29°C, and each has 4 months with the sea at 21°C or warmer.

Neither is a place you would pick for eating alone. Pisa has about three times as many restaurants near the centre, Rovinj a wider spread of kitchens, and the national price levels behind the two are close enough that cost is unlikely to decide it.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone whose holiday is mostly swimming should go to Rovinj: the sea is 1km from the centre and 55 beaches sit nearby, so getting into the water needs no planning at all.

Travellers who want museums and heritage on foot should choose Pisa, where the notable places cluster in the centre and 3 UNESCO-listed places lie within day-trip reach, with more restaurants near the centre too.

Families split. Pisa has more attractions and far more park space near the centre, plus protected countryside around it; Rovinj offers easy sea and slightly more theme parks within reach, and little else.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €155 for Italy and €138 for Croatia, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels rather than measurements of either city. A small coastal town and a mid-sized city can each sit well away from their country's average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so this is not evidence about what either trip will cost.

Rovinj's beach count belongs to a town of 13,000 residents, so the warmest months are also the months those beaches fill. Pisa's coast is 10km out, and its fine summer weather does not shorten that journey.

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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F
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Daytime high, °C
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Rovinj
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
3

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). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Pisa is the stronger bet in high summer. July and August are its driest months at 32-35mm, highs reach 30°C and the sea sits at 25°C, so beach days are a reliable plan rather than a gamble.

Rovinj is worth the trip in August, when its sea is at its warmest, 26°C, though the season builds more slowly and May carries 90mm of rain. Both turn wet from October onwards, above 100mm a month, and both stay cool and damp through winter.

Getting there

Flying fromPisaRovinj
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 111 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 111 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

MeasurePisaRovinj
Official languageItalianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation4 m0 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaRovinj
City population88,73712,968
People per km²479–
Museums within 10 km271
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2922
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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.