VacationSelector

Dublin or San Jose?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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.

DublinSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 41 points.41
DublinSan Jose
Score498
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km111
Coast distance3 km14 km
Water distance3 km14 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 29 points.29
DublinSan Jose
Score7041
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3716
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 29 points.29
DublinSan Jose
Score5526
Museums within 10 km4720
Museums within 2 km of centre379
Share of museums within 2 km %7945
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 33 points.33
DublinSan Jose
Score6431
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre93488
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7538
Nightclubs within 4 km4016
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 44 points.44
DublinSan Jose
Score2670
Protected land share 50 km %326
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %6291
Park area within 2 km43 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 21 points.21
DublinSan Jose
Score5433
Tourist attractions within 2 km412
Park area within 2 km43 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 48 points.48
DublinSan Jose
Score6214
Notable places within 2 km1419
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinSan Jose
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 31 points.31
DublinSan Jose
Score5485
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
San Jose
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 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 fromDublinSan Jose
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 20 m
€519-589
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
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

MeasureDublinSan Jose
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m25 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinSan Jose
City population592,7131,013,240
People per km²5,1542,167
Museums within 10 km4019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7430
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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. 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.