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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 Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
San JoseThe Winchester Mystery House

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Antibes or San Jose?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose San Jose for

  • shopping
  • families
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose’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 Jose 30: Antibes leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, San Jose 56: San Jose leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, San Jose 36: Antibes leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, San Jose 33: Antibes leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, San Jose 72: San Jose leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, San Jose 78: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, San Jose 65: San Jose leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, San Jose 30: Antibes leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, San Jose 48: San Jose leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, San Jose 20: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, San Jose 38: San Jose leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, San Jose 30: Antibes leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and San Jose.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

San Jose
45match

Wins on shopping and families 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 Jose in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AntibesSan Jose

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesSan Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesSan Jose
City population77,6371,013,240
People per km²2,9302,167
Museums within 10 km1419
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.