VacationSelector

Rovinj or Venice?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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 swimming is the point of the trip: the water is 1km from the centre, there are far more beaches to choose between, and the town is small enough to walk out of.

Choose Venice if you want museums and landmarks packed within walking distance of the centre, more attractions and park space for children, and a much wider range of places to eat and drink.

Scoreboard

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

RovinjVenice
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 4 points.4
RovinjVenice
Score7369
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km5520
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 18 points.18
RovinjVenice
Score2745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre130750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1410
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 44 points.44
RovinjVenice
Score2872
Museums within 10 km557
Museums within 2 km of centre445
Share of museums within 2 km %8079
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Venice leads by 26 points.26
RovinjVenice
Score935
Drinking venues within 4 km75342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre66306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8889
Nightclubs within 4 km53
Nature & day trips. Venice leads by 7 points.7
RovinjVenice
Score1017
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3870
Park area within 2 km8 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 38 points.38
RovinjVenice
Score1957
Tourist attractions within 2 km672
Park area within 2 km8 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 83 points.83
RovinjVenice
Score083
Notable places within 2 km2464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 12 points.12
RovinjVenice
Score8068
Price level global48.564.9
Daily budget€138€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 1 points.1
RovinjVenice
Score6566
Monthly daytime high8.8 °C to 29.1 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 125 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
0255075100

Where they differ

Rovinj is the simpler place to swim: the sea is 1km from the centre against 4km in Venice, and there are 55 beaches nearby against 20. It also has about twice as many nightclubs, though Venice has far more places to drink.

Venice has many times as many notable places within walking distance and many times as many museums, plus 5 UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach against Rovinj's 1. Families get many times as many attractions near the centre and about twice as much park space.

Where they are alike

Weather is where the two sit closest. The year runs on much the same curve, with daytime highs of 9-29°C in Rovinj and 8-30°C in Venice, and the same cold start and hot midsummer in each.

Swimming is comparable as well: both have four months of sea at 21°C or more, warmest in late summer. Neither works as a base for wild country, with only a small share of the land around each protected.

Which traveller are you?

Beach-first travellers: Rovinj. The sea is 1km from the centre, there are 55 beaches to choose between, and the swimming season is the same four months you would get in Venice anyway.

Culture travellers: Venice, without much argument. Many times as many museums, 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Rovinj's 1, and the notable sights close enough together to cover on foot.

Families: Venice again, with many times as many attractions near the centre and about twice the park space, though both have 3 theme parks within reach and both put the sea within a short trip in summer.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget, €138 for Rovinj's country and €155 for Venice's, is a national estimate of restaurant and hotel prices, not a measurement of either city. A heavily visited city can sit well above its own national average, so a gap this small says nothing about which trip will cost you more.

Warm and dry are not the same months here. The best swimming weeks are followed straight by the wettest, with autumn totals above 100mm in both. And Rovinj's long list of beaches belongs to a town of 13,000 people, in the same weeks everyone else wants the water.

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
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Daytime high, °C
Rovinj
9
10
14
18
22
27
29
29
24
19
14
10
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Rovinj
11
10
11
13
18
22
25
26
23
20
17
14
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Rovinj
51
59
56
74
90
73
61
78
114
113
125
88
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Rovinj
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rovinj
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
3
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Rovinj's window runs June to September, with highs of 24-29°C and the sea at 26°C in August. Autumn then turns heavy, and November is the wettest month of its year.

Venice comes good earlier, in May, when highs reach 24°C and the rain has not yet built up. Its start to the year is drier, near 36mm, where Rovinj's is wetter, which matters if you are travelling out of season. Autumn is wet in both, though Venice's totals sit below Rovinj's.

Getting there

Flying fromRovinjVenice
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 111 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 111 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
PUY · 31 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 111 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 129 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 26 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 111 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 111 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 111 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureRovinjVenice
Official languageCroatianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovinjVenice
City population12,968250,369
People per km²–602
Museums within 10 km152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre2246
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.