VacationSelector

Rovinj or Split?

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

Your match

Rovinj
35
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Rovinj if you want a small coastal town of about 13,000 people, quiet evenings, and swimming a short walk from the centre, with theme parks within reach if you have children.

Choose Split if you want a dense, walkable centre, about three times as many museums, nightlife Rovinj cannot match, and drier, hotter summers.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

RovinjSplit
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj and Split are level on 73.
RovinjSplit
Score7373
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km5587
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Split leads by 11 points.11
RovinjSplit
Score2738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre130268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1415
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 24 points.24
RovinjSplit
Score2852
Museums within 10 km518
Museums within 2 km of centre416
Share of museums within 2 km %8089
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Split leads by 32 points.32
RovinjSplit
Score941
Drinking venues within 4 km75379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre66263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8869
Nightclubs within 4 km523
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 28 points.28
RovinjSplit
Score1038
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3862
Park area within 2 km8 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Split leads by 7 points.7
RovinjSplit
Score1926
Tourist attractions within 2 km69
Park area within 2 km8 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Split leads by 42 points.42
RovinjSplit
Score042
Notable places within 2 km243
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj and Split are level on 80.
RovinjSplit
Score8080
Price level global48.548.5
Daily budget€138€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 4 points.4
RovinjSplit
Score6569
Monthly daytime high8.8 °C to 29.1 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 125 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
0255075100

Where they differ

Rovinj is the quieter of the two, with far fewer bars and clubs and only a fraction of the notable places Split packs into walking distance of its centre. It does hold one family advantage: 3 theme parks within reach where Split has none, and a town of 13,000 stays calm even in season.

Split has about three times as many museums, 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Rovinj's 1, and more protected land around it, 9% against 2%, so day trips out of town go further.

Where they are alike

Swimming is the axis where they are level. Both sit on the water, within 1km of the centre, and both have four months of sea at 21°C or more. Split counts 87 beaches nearby against Rovinj's 55, but neither is short of places to get in.

Year-round conditions are close too, mild winters and hot summers in both, and both are middling for families: each has attractions near the centre, but neither is built around children.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone travelling for history should go to Split: about three times as many museums as Rovinj, 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, and a centre where most of the notable sites are within walking distance.

Families could go either way. Rovinj has 3 theme parks within reach and Split has none, but Split has roughly twice as many attractions near the centre and far more park space, so it depends on the children's ages.

Anyone who wants evenings out should choose Split, which has many times as many bars and clubs. If the trip is about quiet swimming and early nights, Rovinj, with the sea 1km from the centre, does that better.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level and is identical for both by construction, so it carries no information about which of these two costs less. The €138 daily budget is one national estimate, not a measurement of either place.

Beaches come out level, but the counts behind that say nothing about crowding: the months when the sea is warmest are the months everyone else arrives, and a town of 13,000 fills faster than a city of 161,000. Split's driest month is also its hottest at 31°C, which is not the same as its most comfortable.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Rovinj is at its best in June and July, with highs of 27-29°C and a sea that stays swimmable into early autumn. The catch is what follows: 114mm of rain in September and more again in November, so late trips are a gamble.

Split holds up longer. July and August are its driest months at 25-32mm, and May and September stay warm at 23-25°C, so shoulder-season trips there carry less rain risk than Rovinj's.

Getting there

Flying fromRovinjSplit
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 111 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 111 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 111 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ZAD · 109 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureRovinjSplit
Official languageCroatianCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovinjSplit
City population12,968160,577
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre2231
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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.