VacationSelector

Pisa or San Jose?

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

Your match

Pisa
✓ Best match
45
match

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

San Jose
39
match

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

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PisaSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 13 points.13
PisaSan Jose
Score218
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance10 km14 km
Water distance10 km14 km
Places to eat. San Jose leads by 7 points.7
PisaSan Jose
Score3441
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km916
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 29 points.29
PisaSan Jose
Score5526
Museums within 10 km2720
Museums within 2 km of centre229
Share of museums within 2 km %8145
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. San Jose leads by 3 points.3
PisaSan Jose
Score2831
Drinking venues within 4 km232231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8838
Nightclubs within 4 km316
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 31 points.31
PisaSan Jose
Score3970
Protected land share 50 km %926
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %6591
Park area within 2 km40 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
PisaSan Jose
Score4733
Tourist attractions within 2 km202
Park area within 2 km40 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 33 points.33
PisaSan Jose
Score4714
Notable places within 2 km589
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
PisaSan Jose
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 15 points.15
PisaSan Jose
Score7085
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months28
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
San Jose
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 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 fromPisaSan Jose
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePisaSan Jose
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation4 m25 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaSan Jose
City population88,7371,013,240
People per km²4792,167
Museums within 10 km2719
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2930
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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). 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. 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.