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The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Queenstown 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 Queenstown for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Queenstown 20, Rovinj 70: Rovinj leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Queenstown 45, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Queenstown 12, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Queenstown 42, Rovinj 25: Queenstown leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Queenstown 97, Rovinj 60: Queenstown leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Queenstown 50, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Queenstown 60, Rovinj 52: Queenstown leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Queenstown 45, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Queenstown and Rovinj are level on 28.
Affordability. Queenstown 20, Rovinj 36: Rovinj leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Queenstown 14, Rovinj 15: Rovinj leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Queenstown and Rovinj are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Queenstown and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Queenstown
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovinj
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
9 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

Queenstown has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQueenstownRovinj
Official languageEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, MāoriCroatian
CurrencyNew Zealand Dollar (NZD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+12, UTC+13 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111112
Elevation324 m0 m
Main airportQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureQueenstownRovinj
City population29,00012,968
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.