VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Rovinj?

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

Your match

Reykjavik
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

ReykjavikRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 13 points.13
ReykjavikRovinj
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km3355
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 22 points.22
ReykjavikRovinj
Score4927
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2914
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 22 points.22
ReykjavikRovinj
Score5028
Museums within 10 km345
Museums within 2 km of centre234
Share of museums within 2 km %6880
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Reykjavik leads by 18 points.18
ReykjavikRovinj
Score279
Drinking venues within 4 km19275
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16666
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8688
Nightclubs within 4 km105
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 49 points.49
ReykjavikRovinj
Score5910
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5638
Park area within 2 km28 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 23 points.23
ReykjavikRovinj
Score4219
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km28 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 48 points.48
ReykjavikRovinj
Score480
Notable places within 2 km612
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 39 points.39
ReykjavikRovinj
Score4180
Price level global102.848.5
Daily budget€243€138
Year-round weather. Rovinj leads by 28 points.28
ReykjavikRovinj
Score3765
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm51 mm to 125 mm
Dry months00
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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
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. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikRovinj
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
MadridMAD
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
ViennaVIE
4 h 5 m
€281-315
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
MunichMUC
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 111 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 111 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureReykjavikRovinj
Official languageIcelandicCroatian
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m0 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikRovinj
City population138,77212,968
People per km²569
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4222
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. 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.

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.