VacationSelector

San Diego or Vienna?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

San Diego
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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 DiegoVienna
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
San DiegoVienna
Score630
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km4222
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
San DiegoVienna
Score6377
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8231,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2737
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 37 points.37
San DiegoVienna
Score4481
Museums within 10 km59192
Museums within 2 km of centre30110
Share of museums within 2 km %5157
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 24 points.24
San DiegoVienna
Score5074
Drinking venues within 4 km6151,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4081,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6656
Nightclubs within 4 km31108
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 23 points.23
San DiegoVienna
Score5532
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km308 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 6 points.6
San DiegoVienna
Score7569
Tourist attractions within 2 km4046
Park area within 2 km308 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 35 points.35
San DiegoVienna
Score4075
Notable places within 2 km40287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 16 points.16
San DiegoVienna
Score4359
Price level global10076.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 27 points.27
San DiegoVienna
Score8861
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months91
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
No sunshine record
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 35 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€230-294
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
50 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
4 h 30 m
no fares
TIJ · 26 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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 DiegoVienna
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoVienna
City population1,386,9322,028,289
People per km²1,4384,890
Museums within 10 km26152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre44113
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.