Photo: Vid Pogačnik / CC BY-SA 4.0
Ravni is one of the smallest places on the Croatian coast with its own page in this atlas: 64 residents, one road, one shop and four hundred metres of beach on Istria's east coast, looking across the Kvarner to Cres. Families from Labin once kept fishing huts here; today they are apartments on terraces above the sea, and in summer the population multiplies by ten and stays quiet all the same.
People choose Ravni for what it lacks: no hotel, no promenade, no nightlife. What it has is clear water with no river to cloud it, a coastal path with coves all the way to Sveta Marina, the Orlić hill with a view over the whole bay, and Skitača, a half-abandoned village at 425 metres with a church from 1616. Labin with its pharmacy and evening life is a quarter of an hour by car, Rabac with its hotels twenty minutes, Pula airport fifty kilometres.
Ten-year averages for Ravni, so you can see what a month usually looks like rather than what this week happens to do.
| Month | Day °C | Night °C | Rain days | Sea °C |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 4 | 10 | 13 |
| February | 11 | 5 | 10 | 12 |
| March | 13 | 7 | 10 | 13 |
| April | 16 | 10 | 10 | 14 |
| May | 20 | 14 | 12 | 18 |
| June | 26 | 19 | 8 | 22 |
| July | 29 | 22 | 7 | 26 |
| August | 29 | 22 | 6 | 26 |
| September | 23 | 18 | 10 | 23 |
| October | 19 | 13 | 11 | 20 |
| November | 14 | 9 | 12 | 18 |
| December | 11 | 6 | 10 | 15 |
Air 2015 to 2024, sea 2022 to 2024. A rain day is 1 mm or more. Data by Open-Meteo.com
12 places.
Start with Orlić viewpoint, Ravni Beach, and Prklog bay. After that it depends on what you enjoy: the guide holds 12 places in Ravni, sorted into sights, activities, food and shopping, so you can skip whole categories that bore you.
Orlić viewpointFollow the hidden gems: 4 places that rarely make the guidebooks, most of them a few streets off the main drag. Orlić viewpoint, Ravni Beach, and Prklog bay are good ones to start with.
Ravni BeachA focused day covers the essentials. Combine two or three nearby sights with a long lunch, and leave room for whatever you stumble into: all 12 places are grouped by area, so nothing forces you across town.
Ravni villageDay trips within reach of Ravni, plus the routes and quiet corners our editors keep coming back to.
A 470-metre summit above Skitača with a view over the whole Kvarner, from Učka to Cres and Lošinj.
Photo: Vid Pogačnik / CC BY-SA 4.0
Four hundred metres of pebble and concrete terraces below the village, looking across the Kvarner to Cres.
Photo: Kuhni74 / CC BY-SA 4.0
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A settlement of 64 residents on a terrace above the sea, once a fishing and farming hamlet of Labin families.
Photo: Kuhni74 / CC BY-SA 4.0
A half-abandoned village on a 425-metre plateau, with the church of St Lucy from 1616 and an educational trail.
Photo: Vid Pogačnik / CC BY-SA 4.0
The mining town on the hill, twelve kilometres from Ravni, with baroque palaces, galleries and a view over the Kvarner.
Photo: Olgierd Rudak / CC BY-SA 4.0
A 470-metre summit above Skitača with a view over the whole Kvarner, from Učka to Cres and Lošinj.
Photo: Vid Pogačnik / CC BY-SA 4.0
Four hundred metres of pebble and concrete terraces below the village, looking across the Kvarner to Cres.
Photo: Kuhni74 / CC BY-SA 4.0
The neighbouring cove with a small harbour, a campsite and the only cash machine around, four kilometres north.
Photo: Mike aus dem Bayerwald / CC BY-SA 4.0
A workers' settlement by the cement plant at the far south of this coast, with an unexpectedly good beach.
Photo: Goran Premec / CC BY-SA 3.0
The resort below Labin with hotels, a long promenade and the Girandella and Maslinica beaches.
Photo: Czeva / CC BY-SA 3.0
Local know-how to make the most of your visit.
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