VacationSelector

Rovaniemi or Venice?

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

Your match

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

RovaniemiVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
RovaniemiVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1320
Coast distance99 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 24 points.24
RovaniemiVenice
Score2145
Restaurants within 2 km of centre80750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1410
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 52 points.52
RovaniemiVenice
Score2072
Museums within 10 km857
Museums within 2 km of centre745
Share of museums within 2 km %8879
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Venice leads by 31 points.31
RovaniemiVenice
Score435
Drinking venues within 4 km52342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre42306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8189
Nightclubs within 4 km33
Nature & day trips. Venice leads by 1 points.1
RovaniemiVenice
Score1617
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km25 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 36 points.36
RovaniemiVenice
Score2157
Tourist attractions within 2 km272
Park area within 2 km25 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 58 points.58
RovaniemiVenice
Score2583
Notable places within 2 km17464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 12 points.12
RovaniemiVenice
Score5668
Price level global81.664.9
Daily budget€184€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 23 points.23
RovaniemiVenice
Score4366
Monthly daytime high-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall30 mm to 75 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months52
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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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rovaniemi
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRovaniemiVenice
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
DublinDUB
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
4 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€44-65
TSF · 26 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 113 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

MeasureRovaniemiVenice
Official languageFinnish, SwedishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation88 m2 m
Main airportRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovaniemiVenice
City population65,329250,369
People per km²9602
Museums within 10 km652
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre1646
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.