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Château Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City
Quebec CityChâteau Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Quebec City by Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Quebec City 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 Quebec City for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Quebec City 18, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Quebec City 57, Rovinj 50: Quebec City leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Quebec City 70, Rovinj 38: Quebec City leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Quebec City 42, Rovinj 25: Quebec City leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quebec City 79, Rovinj 60: Quebec City leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Quebec City 58, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Quebec City 64, Rovinj 52: Quebec City leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Quebec City 50, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Quebec City 45, Rovinj 28: Quebec City leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Quebec City 45, Rovinj 36: Quebec City leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quebec City 52, Rovinj 15: Quebec City leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quebec City 55, Rovinj 42: Quebec City leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quebec City and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Quebec City
Best match
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches 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.

Quebec City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

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. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuebec CityRovinj
Official languageFrench, EnglishCroatian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation98 m0 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityRovinj
City population574,48212,968
People per km²1,184-
Museums within 10 km161
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.