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The old Bath House in the Government Gardens, Rotorua
RotoruaThe old Bath House in the Government Gardens
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Rotorua by W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Rotorua or Venice?

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 Rotorua for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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. Rotorua 33, Venice 56: Venice leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Rotorua 33, Venice 60: Venice leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Rotorua 38, Venice 94: Venice leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Rotorua 14, Venice 27: Venice leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rotorua 86, Venice 45: Rotorua leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Rotorua 45, Venice 86: Venice leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Rotorua 68, Venice 45: Rotorua leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Rotorua 30, Venice 68: Venice leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Rotorua 22, Venice 57: Venice leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Rotorua 36, Venice 20: Rotorua leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rotorua 30, Venice 62: Venice leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rotorua 86, Venice 40: Rotorua leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rotorua and Venice.

Your match

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

Rotorua
43match

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

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Rotorua in July

11 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
113 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 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

Rotorua 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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rotorua: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRotoruaVenice
Official languageEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, MāoriItalian
CurrencyNew Zealand Dollar (NZD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+12, UTC+13 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111112
Elevation280 m2 m
Main airportRotorua Regional Airport (ROT)7 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotoruaVenice
City population58,500250,369
People per km²22602
Museums within 10 km152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.