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The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Rovinj or St. Pete Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Rovinj 50, St. Pete Beach 40: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Rovinj 38, St. Pete Beach 18: Rovinj leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Rovinj 25, St. Pete Beach 28: St. Pete Beach leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rovinj 60, St. Pete Beach 57: Rovinj leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Rovinj 68, St. Pete Beach 58: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Rovinj 52, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Rovinj 55, St. Pete Beach 30: Rovinj leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Rovinj 28, St. Pete Beach 20: Rovinj leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Rovinj 36, St. Pete Beach 32: Rovinj leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rovinj 15, St. Pete Beach 20: St. Pete Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rovinj and St. Pete Beach are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rovinj and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Rovinj
Best match
45match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on families and beaches 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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.

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRovinjSt. Pete Beach
Official languageCroatian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovinjSt. Pete Beach
City population12,9688,879
People per km²-173
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.