VacationSelector

Rovinj or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Rovinj
35
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips 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.

RovinjSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 18 points.18
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score7355
Swim season months42
Beaches 10 km5510
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score2755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre130472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1426
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 11 points.11
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score2839
Museums within 10 km517
Museums within 2 km of centre47
Share of museums within 2 km %8041
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 31 points.31
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score940
Drinking venues within 4 km75388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre66338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8887
Nightclubs within 4 km512
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 46 points.46
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score1056
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3852
Park area within 2 km8 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 11 points.11
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score1930
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km8 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 54 points.54
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score054
Notable places within 2 km289
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 9 points.9
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score8071
Price level global48.560.8
Daily budget€138€122
Year-round weather. Rovinj leads by 7 points.7
RovinjSan Sebastian
Score6558
Monthly daytime high8.8 °C to 29.1 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 125 mm92 mm to 203 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
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rovinj
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
3
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRovinjSan Sebastian
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 111 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 75 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 55 m
no fares
TSF · 129 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 25 m
no fares
TSF · 129 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 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 2026-09 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

MeasureRovinjSan Sebastian
Official languageCroatianSpanish
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 number112112
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovinjSan Sebastian
City population12,968189,866
People per km²3,118
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre2245
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months2 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.