VacationSelector

Goreme or San Jose?

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

Your match

Goreme
32
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

San Jose
✓ Best match
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

GoremeSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
GoremeSan Jose
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance205 km14 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. San Jose leads by 11 points.11
GoremeSan Jose
Score3041
Restaurants within 2 km of centre100313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2116
Museums & heritage. San Jose leads by 14 points.14
GoremeSan Jose
Score1226
Museums within 10 km1020
Museums within 2 km of centre19
Share of museums within 2 km %1045
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. San Jose leads by 19 points.19
GoremeSan Jose
Score1231
Drinking venues within 4 km99231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5888
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5938
Nightclubs within 4 km216
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 44 points.44
GoremeSan Jose
Score2670
Protected land share 50 km %1126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %102
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km101 hectares
Good for families. Goreme leads by 19 points.19
GoremeSan Jose
Score5233
Tourist attractions within 2 km512
Park area within 2 km101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. San Jose leads by 14 points.14
GoremeSan Jose
Score014
Notable places within 2 km29
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Goreme leads by 46 points.46
GoremeSan Jose
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 18 points.18
GoremeSan Jose
Score6785
Monthly daytime high4.6 °C to 29.8 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 59 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months58
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
Goreme
5
7
12
16
22
26
30
30
25
20
12
7
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Goreme
No coastline within reach
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Goreme
54
42
53
42
59
53
13
7
15
30
32
48
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Goreme
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Goreme
3
4
5
7
9
11
13
12
9
7
5
3
San Jose
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 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 fromGoremeSan Jose
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€84-89
NAV · 29 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 55 m
€230-246
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 20 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MunichMUC
3 h 15 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
11 h 45 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

MeasureGoremeSan Jose
Official languageTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1,100 m25 m
Main airportKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGoremeSan Jose
City population2,0001,013,240
People per km²202,167
Museums within 10 km519
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3830
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.