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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Liverpool or San Juan?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Liverpool for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Liverpool’s own page.

Choose San Juan for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Liverpool 22, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool and San Juan are level on 64.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, San Juan 52: Liverpool leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, San Juan 58: San Juan leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, San Juan 38: Liverpool leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, San Juan 50: Liverpool leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, San Juan 38: Liverpool leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, San Juan 55: Liverpool leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, San Juan 40: San Juan leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and San Juan.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Liverpool
52match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolSan Juan
Official languageEnglishSpanish, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation70 m3 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolSan Juan
City population513,441342,259
People per km²4,5922,847
Museums within 10 km3118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.