VacationSelector

Antwerp or San Jose?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AntwerpSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpSan Jose
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance21 km14 km
Water distance—14 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 34 points.34
AntwerpSan Jose
Score7541
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4216
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 43 points.43
AntwerpSan Jose
Score6926
Museums within 10 km4120
Museums within 2 km of centre279
Share of museums within 2 km %6645
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 28 points.28
AntwerpSan Jose
Score5931
Drinking venues within 4 km866231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre65788
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7638
Nightclubs within 4 km7316
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 36 points.36
AntwerpSan Jose
Score3470
Protected land share 50 km %726
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %8091
Park area within 2 km53 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 13 points.13
AntwerpSan Jose
Score4633
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km53 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 40 points.40
AntwerpSan Jose
Score5414
Notable places within 2 km889
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpSan Jose
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 27 points.27
AntwerpSan Jose
Score5885
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months08
0255075100

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.

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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
San Jose
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpSan Jose
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 15 m
€252-262
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAntwerpSan Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpSan Jose
City population529,2471,013,240
People per km²2,5422,167
Museums within 10 km3819
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8030
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.