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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego
San DiegoThe Botanical Building, Balboa Park

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; San Diego by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antwerp or San Diego?

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 Antwerp for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose San Diego for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on San Diego’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. Antwerp 15, San Diego 72: San Diego leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp and San Diego are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, San Diego 50: Antwerp leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, San Diego 48: Antwerp leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, San Diego 77: San Diego leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, San Diego 60: Antwerp leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, San Diego 96: San Diego leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, San Diego 38: Antwerp leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, San Diego 44: Antwerp leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, San Diego 26: Antwerp leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, San Diego 56: Antwerp leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, San Diego 45: San Diego leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and San Diego.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Antwerp
55match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

San Diego
56match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

San Diego in July

24 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Antwerp has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpSan Diego
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch-
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
Elevation7 m129 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpSan Diego
City population529,2471,386,932
People per km²2,5421,438
Museums within 10 km3826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.