VacationSelector

Rome or San Jose?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

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

San Jose
39
match

Wins on 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.

RomeSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 25 points.25
RomeSan Jose
Score338
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance24 km14 km
Water distance24 km14 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 19 points.19
RomeSan Jose
Score6041
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,241313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1016
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 58 points.58
RomeSan Jose
Score8426
Museums within 10 km16120
Museums within 2 km of centre799
Share of museums within 2 km %4945
Unesco sites within 50 km70
Nightlife. Rome leads by 43 points.43
RomeSan Jose
Score7431
Drinking venues within 4 km2,022231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre91288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4538
Nightclubs within 4 km8516
Nature & day trips. Rome and San Jose are level on 70.
RomeSan Jose
Score7070
Protected land share 50 km %1926
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %7891
Park area within 2 km172 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 53 points.53
RomeSan Jose
Score8633
Tourist attractions within 2 km1262
Park area within 2 km172 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 85 points.85
RomeSan Jose
Score9914
Notable places within 2 km1,1259
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 25 points.25
RomeSan Jose
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 14 points.14
RomeSan Jose
Score7185
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months38
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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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
San Jose
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 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 fromRomeSan Jose
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 20 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€96-147
FCO · 23 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
€487-550
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 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

MeasureRomeSan 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
Elevation21 m25 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeSan Jose
City population2,748,1091,013,240
People per km²2,1352,167
Museums within 10 km17719
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km70
Distinct cuisines in the centre6530
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.