VacationSelector

Maastricht or San Francisco?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

MaastrichtSan Francisco
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km644
Coast distance118 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 35 points.35
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score4883
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3382,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 9 points.9
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score5344
Museums within 10 km2357
Museums within 2 km of centre1329
Share of museums within 2 km %5751
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 38 points.38
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score3068
Drinking venues within 4 km2231,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8265
Nightclubs within 4 km1397
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 23 points.23
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score3760
Protected land share 50 km %1917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %114
Land share of disc %10057
Park area within 2 km33 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score4657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1548
Park area within 2 km33 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 27 points.27
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score3663
Notable places within 2 km32147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 15 points.15
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 19 points.19
MaastrichtSan Francisco
Score5978
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months07
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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
San Francisco
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtSan Francisco
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 85 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureMaastrichtSan Francisco
Official languageDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation49 m16 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtSan Francisco
City population120,227873,965
People per km²2,0001,455
Museums within 10 km2150
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre33108
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). 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.