VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Rovinj?

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

Your match

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

RotterdamRovinj
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 36 points.36
RotterdamRovinj
Score3773
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2255
Coast distance24 km1 km
Water distance24 km1 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 45 points.45
RotterdamRovinj
Score7227
Restaurants within 2 km of centre862130
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4614
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 32 points.32
RotterdamRovinj
Score6028
Museums within 10 km415
Museums within 2 km of centre204
Share of museums within 2 km %4980
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 40 points.40
RotterdamRovinj
Score499
Drinking venues within 4 km54275
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre37866
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7088
Nightclubs within 4 km405
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 32 points.32
RotterdamRovinj
Score4210
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7938
Park area within 2 km61 hectares8 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 43 points.43
RotterdamRovinj
Score6219
Tourist attractions within 2 km276
Park area within 2 km61 hectares8 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km83
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 51 points.51
RotterdamRovinj
Score510
Notable places within 2 km742
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 22 points.22
RotterdamRovinj
Score5880
Price level global79.248.5
Daily budget€181€138
Year-round weather. Rovinj leads by 9 points.9
RotterdamRovinj
Score5665
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C8.8 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamRovinj
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 111 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€209-257
AMS · 47 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
11 h 10 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

MeasureRotterdamRovinj
Official languageDutchCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamRovinj
City population664,31112,968
People per km²2,080–
Museums within 10 km401
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre7722
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.