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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Antibes or San Francisco?

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 Antibes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose San Francisco for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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. Antibes 80, San Francisco 25: Antibes leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, San Francisco 80: San Francisco leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, San Francisco 72: Antibes leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, San Francisco 14: Antibes leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, San Francisco 42: San Francisco leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and San Francisco.

Your match

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

Antibes
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AntibesSan Francisco

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesSan Francisco
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m16 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesSan Francisco
City population77,637873,965
People per km²2,9301,455
Museums within 10 km1451
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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.