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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata or Rovinj?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’s own page.

Choose Rovinj for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Puerto Plata 80, Rovinj 70: Puerto Plata leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Rovinj 25: Puerto Plata leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Rovinj 60: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Rovinj 52: Puerto Plata leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Rovinj 28: Puerto Plata leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Rovinj 36: Puerto Plata leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Rovinj 15: Puerto Plata leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Rovinj 42: Rovinj leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Rovinj.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Plata has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataRovinj
Official languageSpanishCroatian
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m0 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataRovinj
City population-12,968
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.