VacationSelector

San Diego or Split?

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

Your match

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

San DiegoSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 10 points.10
San DiegoSplit
Score6373
Swim season months14
Beaches 10 km4287
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 25 points.25
San DiegoSplit
Score6338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre823268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2715
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 8 points.8
San DiegoSplit
Score4452
Museums within 10 km5918
Museums within 2 km of centre3016
Share of museums within 2 km %5189
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 9 points.9
San DiegoSplit
Score5041
Drinking venues within 4 km615379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6669
Nightclubs within 4 km3123
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 17 points.17
San DiegoSplit
Score5538
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5262
Park area within 2 km308 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 49 points.49
San DiegoSplit
Score7526
Tourist attractions within 2 km409
Park area within 2 km308 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Split leads by 2 points.2
San DiegoSplit
Score4042
Notable places within 2 km4043
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 37 points.37
San DiegoSplit
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 19 points.19
San DiegoSplit
Score8869
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months92
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
No sunshine record
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureSan DiegoSplit
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation129 m0 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoSplit
City population1,386,932160,577
People per km²1,438
Museums within 10 km2611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre4431
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month4 months

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.