VacationSelector

Hong Kong or San Diego?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

San Diego
58
match

Wins on good for families 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.

Hong KongSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 24 points.24
Hong KongSan Diego
Score8763
Swim season months81
Beaches 10 km6542
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 25 points.25
Hong KongSan Diego
Score8863
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. San Diego leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongSan Diego
Score3644
Museums within 10 km5059
Museums within 2 km of centre1730
Share of museums within 2 km %3451
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 21 points.21
Hong KongSan Diego
Score7150
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5966
Nightclubs within 4 km3731
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
Hong KongSan Diego
Score6455
Protected land share 50 km %86
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2952
Park area within 2 km52 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongSan Diego
Score5875
Tourist attractions within 2 km2740
Park area within 2 km52 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 29 points.29
Hong KongSan Diego
Score6940
Notable places within 2 km20440
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Hong KongSan Diego
Score6343
Price level global72100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongSan Diego
Score7488
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months49
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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
San Diego
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongSan Diego
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€121-158
SAN · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
BostonBOS, PSM
15 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
16 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
50 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
12 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TIJ · 26 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

MeasureHong KongSan Diego
Official languageStandard Chinese
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m129 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongSan Diego
City population7,413,0701,386,932
People per km²1,438
Museums within 10 km3926
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7644
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months1 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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.