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The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea
The Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose, San Jose, Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa RicaThe Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose

Photos: Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Jose, Costa Rica by Bernard Gagnon, CC0.

Rovinj or San Jose, Costa Rica?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose San Jose, Costa Rica for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose, Costa Rica’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 Jose, Costa Rica 12: Rovinj leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Rovinj 50, San Jose, Costa Rica 42: Rovinj leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Rovinj and San Jose, Costa Rica are level on 38.
Nightlife. Rovinj 25, San Jose, Costa Rica 40: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rovinj 60, San Jose, Costa Rica 78: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Rovinj 68, San Jose, Costa Rica 52: Rovinj leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Rovinj 52, San Jose, Costa Rica 44: Rovinj leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Rovinj 55, San Jose, Costa Rica 30: Rovinj leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Rovinj 28, San Jose, Costa Rica 36: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Rovinj 36, San Jose, Costa Rica 54: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rovinj 15, San Jose, Costa Rica 38: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rovinj 42, San Jose, Costa Rica 28: Rovinj leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rovinj and San Jose, Costa Rica.

Your match

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

Rovinj
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

San Jose, Costa Rica
41match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors 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 Jose, Costa Rica in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
173 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

San Jose, Costa Rica's station stands 241 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre). San Jose, Costa Rica: 1991-2020 normals, Juan Santamaria (16.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRovinjSan Jose, Costa Rica
Official languageCroatianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m1,161 m
Main airportPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsJuan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)16 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovinjSan Jose, Costa Rica
City population12,968335,007
People per km²-7,511
Museums within 10 km19
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.