VacationSelector

Rovinj or Sofia?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

RovinjSofia
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 73 points.73
RovinjSofia
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km550
Coast distance1 km214 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 37 points.37
RovinjSofia
Score2764
Restaurants within 2 km of centre130845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1428
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 29 points.29
RovinjSofia
Score2857
Museums within 10 km551
Museums within 2 km of centre440
Share of museums within 2 km %8078
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 52 points.52
RovinjSofia
Score961
Drinking venues within 4 km75958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre66608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8863
Nightclubs within 4 km5102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 41 points.41
RovinjSofia
Score1051
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %38100
Park area within 2 km8 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 36 points.36
RovinjSofia
Score1955
Tourist attractions within 2 km620
Park area within 2 km8 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 57 points.57
RovinjSofia
Score057
Notable places within 2 km2104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 19 points.19
RovinjSofia
Score8099
Price level global48.521.4
Daily budget€138€77
Year-round weather. Rovinj leads by 1 points.1
RovinjSofia
Score6564
Monthly daytime high8.8 °C to 29.1 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 125 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months03
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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Sea temperature, °C
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Sofia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sofia
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
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRovinjSofia
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 111 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 111 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 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

MeasureRovinjSofia
Official languageCroatianBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m560 m
Main airportPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovinjSofia
City population12,9681,213,134
People per km²2,466
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre2251
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. 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.