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The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Rovinj or Vail?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Vail for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Rovinj leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Rovinj 50, Vail 35: Rovinj leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Rovinj 38, Vail 10: Rovinj leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Rovinj 25, Vail 30: Vail leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rovinj 60, Vail 92: Vail leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Rovinj 68, Vail 45: Rovinj leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Rovinj 52, Vail 55: Vail leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Rovinj 55, Vail 62: Vail leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Rovinj 28, Vail 35: Vail leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Rovinj 36, Vail 5: Rovinj leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rovinj 15, Vail 42: Vail leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rovinj 42, Vail 48: Vail leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rovinj and Vail.

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 prices with your weighting.

Vail
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts 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

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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.

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRovinjVail
Official languageCroatian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,445 m
Main airportPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovinjVail
City population12,9684,835
People per km²-400
Museums within 10 km11
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. 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.