VacationSelector

Florence or San Diego?

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

Your match

Florence
55
match

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

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

FlorenceSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
FlorenceSan Diego
Score063
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km042
Coast distance78 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceSan Diego
Score5963
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1527
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 38 points.38
FlorenceSan Diego
Score8244
Museums within 10 km13259
Museums within 2 km of centre9330
Share of museums within 2 km %7051
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Florence leads by 6 points.6
FlorenceSan Diego
Score5650
Drinking venues within 4 km818615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7366
Nightclubs within 4 km3431
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 17 points.17
FlorenceSan Diego
Score3855
Protected land share 50 km %96
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km86 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 23 points.23
FlorenceSan Diego
Score5275
Tourist attractions within 2 km3040
Park area within 2 km86 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 35 points.35
FlorenceSan Diego
Score7540
Notable places within 2 km29240
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceSan Diego
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 20 points.20
FlorenceSan Diego
Score6888
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months29
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
San Diego
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceSan Diego
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFlorenceSan Diego
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m129 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceSan Diego
City population360,9301,386,932
People per km²3,5281,438
Museums within 10 km14026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6244
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.