Rovinj or Vienna?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.
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 the trip is built around swimming: 55 beaches nearby and sea at 21°C or more from June to September, in a small town you can cover on foot.
Choose Vienna if you want museums, restaurants and nightlife within walking distance of the centre, and a city that still works in the months when swimming is out of the question.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Rovinj leads by 73 points.73
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 73 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 4 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 55 | 22 |
| Coast distance | 1 km | 10,000 km |
| Water distance | 1 km | — |
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 50 points.50
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 27 | 77 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 130 | 1,617 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 14 | 37 |
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 53 points.53
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 28 | 81 |
| Museums within 10 km | 5 | 192 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 4 | 110 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 80 | 57 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 1 | 3 |
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 65 points.65
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 9 | 74 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 75 | 1,948 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 66 | 1,089 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 88 | 56 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 5 | 108 |
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 22 points.22
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 10 | 32 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 2 | 4 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 38 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 8 hectares | 93 hectares |
Good for families. Vienna leads by 50 points.50
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 19 | 69 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 6 | 46 |
| Park area within 2 km | 8 hectares | 93 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 3 | 4 |
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 75 points.75
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 75 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 2 | 287 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Rovinj leads by 21 points.21
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 80 | 59 |
| Price level global | 48.5 | 76.9 |
| Daily budget | €138 | €160 |
Year-round weather. Rovinj leads by 4 points.4
| Rovinj | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 65 | 61 |
| Monthly daytime high | 8.8 °C to 29.1 °C | 3.3 °C to 26.8 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 51 mm to 125 mm | 38 mm to 80 mm |
| Dry months | 0 | 1 |
Where they differ
Rovinj has 55 beaches nearby against Vienna's 22, and four months when the sea sits at 21°C or more, which Vienna has none of. Its museums and bars sit close to the centre, so a short walk covers the town.
Vienna has many times more notable places within walking distance of the centre, and many times as many bars and clubs, though only about half of its nightlife sits near the centre. It has many times as many museums, and 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Rovinj's 1.
Where they are alike
Weather is where they are most alike across the year. Both peak in July, Rovinj reaching 29°C and Vienna 27°C, and both are at their coolest in January. Neither is dry: Rovinj has no month at 40mm of rain or less, Vienna just one.
Both countries sit in a similar band for the daily budget, and neither city is a base for wilderness: only a small share of the land around each is protected.
Which traveller are you?
Anyone whose holiday is the water should take Rovinj. It has 55 beaches nearby against Vienna's 22, and sea warm enough to swim in from June through September, which Vienna cannot match.
A culture and food traveller belongs in Vienna: many times as many museums and restaurants, 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, and most of what you would want to see within walking distance of the centre.
Families are better served in Vienna too, with many times as many attractions and park space near the centre, and 4 theme parks within reach against Rovinj's 3, though Rovinj's warm summer sea suits small children.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €138 and €160, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel price levels, not measurements of Rovinj or Vienna. A capital and a heavily visited coastal town can each sit well away from their own country's average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so treat them as background rather than a verdict on either city.
Rovinj's beach advantage is concentrated. A town of 13,000 people takes its visitors in the same handful of warm months, so the beaches are busiest exactly when they are worth using, and the wettest months arrive while the sea is still warm.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).
Rovinj is at its best from June to September, with highs of 27-29°C and sea at 22-26°C. June and July are the drier end at 61-73mm; September still swims, but rain climbs to 114mm, and October and November are wetter still.
Vienna works earlier and later in the year: April and May are mild at 17-21°C and drier than Rovinj's autumn, and rainfall stays moderate year-round. Winter is cold, with January highs of 3°C, but the museums and restaurants do not close.
Getting there
| Flying from | Rovinj | Vienna |
|---|---|---|
| MadridMAD | 2 h 20 m €102-159 VCE · 111 km | 2 h 45 m €152-183 1 stop VIE · 18 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 1 h 45 m €190-215 1 stop VCE · 111 km | 1 h 50 m €180-245 1 stop VIE · 18 km |
| RomeFCO, CIA | 1 h 10 m no fares TRS · 84 km | 1 h 35 m €84-160 VIE · 18 km |
| BucharestOTP, BBU | 1 h 55 m €50-66 TSF · 129 km | 1 h 40 m €101-156 VIE · 18 km |
| ZurichZRH | 1 h 5 m no fares VCE · 111 km | 1 h 25 m €170-237 1 stop VIE · 18 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 2 h 10 m no fares PUY · 31 km | 2 h 10 m €105-189 1 stop VIE · 18 km |
| MunichMUC | 1 h 5 m €268-289 VCE · 111 km | 1 h 5 m €230-294 1 stop VIE · 18 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 5 h 55 m €366-421 2 stops VCE · 111 km | 5 h 40 m €292-307 VIE · 18 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 30 m €637-650 VCE · 111 km | 8 h 40 m €736-786 1 stop VIE · 18 km |
| BeijingPEK, PKX | 9 h 55 m no fares VCE · 111 km | 9 h 25 m no fares VIE · 18 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
| Measure | Rovinj | Vienna |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Croatian | German, Austrian Sign Language |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CF230 V, 50 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 0 m | 151 m |
| Main airport | Pula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations | Vienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 14 days | 16 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Rovinj | Vienna |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 12,968 | 2,028,289 |
| People per km² | – | 4,890 |
| Museums within 10 km | 1 | 152 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 1 | 3 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 22 | 113 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 4 months | – |
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