VacationSelector

San Diego or Stuttgart?

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 beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

San DiegoStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
San DiegoStuttgart
Score630
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km423
Coast distance1 km476 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 4 points.4
San DiegoStuttgart
Score6359
Restaurants within 2 km of centre823575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2729
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 12 points.12
San DiegoStuttgart
Score4456
Museums within 10 km5965
Museums within 2 km of centre3021
Share of museums within 2 km %5132
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 1 points.1
San DiegoStuttgart
Score5049
Drinking venues within 4 km615524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6671
Nightclubs within 4 km3153
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 25 points.25
San DiegoStuttgart
Score5580
Protected land share 50 km %651
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km308 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 30 points.30
San DiegoStuttgart
Score7545
Tourist attractions within 2 km4011
Park area within 2 km308 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 4 points.4
San DiegoStuttgart
Score4044
Notable places within 2 km4050
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 17 points.17
San DiegoStuttgart
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 25 points.25
San DiegoStuttgart
Score8863
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months93
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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
No sunshine record
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoStuttgart
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 30 m
€121-158
SAN · 3 km
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 146 km
Las VegasLAS
1 h 10 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 15 m
€64-224
SAN · 3 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 35 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 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 DiegoStuttgart
Official languageGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoStuttgart
City population1,386,932633,484
People per km²1,4383,054
Museums within 10 km2642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4459
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.