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San Francisco or Ubud?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San Francisco

Photo: Elijah Cobb, Pexels License

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

San Francisco
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Ubud
54
match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

San FranciscoUbud
Beaches & swimming. Ubud leads by 15 points.15
Food & drink. San Francisco leads by 27 points.27
Culture & sights. San Francisco leads by 10 points.10
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 44 points.44
Nature & outdoors. San Francisco leads by 4 points.4
Day trips. San Francisco leads by 4 points.4
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 22 points.22
Getting around. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
Shopping & style. San Francisco leads by 8 points.8
Affordability. Ubud leads by 68 points.68
Live music & performing arts. San Francisco leads by 21 points.21
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 54 points.54
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Francisco and Ubud.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulySan FranciscoUbud
Daytime high22 °C29 °C
Night-time low14 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm27 mm
SunshineNo figure9 hours a day
Sea temperature13 °C27 °C
Daylight15 hours a day12 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
No sunshine record
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoUbud
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
7 h 15 m
€391-601
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
16 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€139-147
DPS · 29 km
MelbourneAVV, MEL, MEB
15 h 35 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
5 h 50 m
€365-640
DPS · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
6 h 50 m
€317-331
DPS · 29 km
SydneySYD, WSI
14 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
6 h 5 m
€384-453
DPS · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
BrisbaneBNE
14 h 5 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
5 h 55 m
€447-677
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
9 h 30 m
€461-573
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
5 h 55 m
€254-317
DPS · 29 km
Hong KongHKG
13 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
4 h 45 m
€316-337
DPS · 29 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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 FranciscoUbud
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation16 m210 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoUbud
City population873,965-
People per km²1,455-
Museums within 10 km5014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.