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Nuremberg or San Jose?

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

Your match

Nuremberg
✓ Best match
48
match

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

San Jose
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

NurembergSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
NurembergSan Jose
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km61
Coast distance430 km14 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Nuremberg leads by 23 points.23
NurembergSan Jose
Score6441
Restaurants within 2 km of centre700313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3316
Museums & heritage. Nuremberg leads by 26 points.26
NurembergSan Jose
Score5226
Museums within 10 km5320
Museums within 2 km of centre299
Share of museums within 2 km %5545
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Nuremberg leads by 17 points.17
NurembergSan Jose
Score4831
Drinking venues within 4 km523231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre42788
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8238
Nightclubs within 4 km3616
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 21 points.21
NurembergSan Jose
Score4970
Protected land share 50 km %4226
Landscape blanket share 50 km %412
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km31 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Nuremberg leads by 26 points.26
NurembergSan Jose
Score5933
Tourist attractions within 2 km592
Park area within 2 km31 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Nuremberg leads by 30 points.30
NurembergSan Jose
Score4414
Notable places within 2 km509
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nuremberg leads by 17 points.17
NurembergSan Jose
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 25 points.25
NurembergSan Jose
Score6085
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 25.2 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 77 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months48
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
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Nuremberg
No coastline within reach
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Nuremberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
San Jose
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 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 fromNurembergSan Jose
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 35 m
€139-243
NUE · 5 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
10 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 133 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
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

MeasureNurembergSan Jose
Official languageGerman
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 number112911
Elevation209 m25 m
Main airportNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNurembergSan Jose
City population529,5081,013,240
People per km²2,8392,167
Museums within 10 km5019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7130
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.