VacationSelector
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Rovinj or San Francisco?

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 Rovinj for

  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose San Francisco for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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. Rovinj 70, San Francisco 25: Rovinj leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Rovinj 50, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Rovinj 38, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Rovinj 25, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rovinj 60, San Francisco 80: San Francisco leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Rovinj 68, San Francisco 72: San Francisco leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Rovinj 52, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Rovinj 55, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Rovinj 28, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Rovinj 36, San Francisco 14: Rovinj leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rovinj 15, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rovinj and San Francisco are level on 42.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rovinj and San Francisco.

Your match

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

Rovinj
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0255075100125JFMAMJJASOND
RovinjSan Francisco

Where the figures come from

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. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRovinjSan Francisco
Official languageCroatian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m16 m
Main airportPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovinjSan Francisco
City population12,968873,965
People per km²-1,455
Museums within 10 km151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Rovinj or San Francisco somewhere new.

Browse every destination

Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.