VacationSelector

San Francisco or Venice?

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

Your match

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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 FranciscoVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 9 points.9
San FranciscoVenice
Score6069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km4420
Coast distance2 km4 km
Water distance2 km4 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 38 points.38
San FranciscoVenice
Score8345
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3910
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 28 points.28
San FranciscoVenice
Score4472
Museums within 10 km5757
Museums within 2 km of centre2945
Share of museums within 2 km %5179
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 33 points.33
San FranciscoVenice
Score6835
Drinking venues within 4 km1,434342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6589
Nightclubs within 4 km973
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 43 points.43
San FranciscoVenice
Score6017
Protected land share 50 km %174
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5770
Park area within 2 km45 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco and Venice are level on 57.
San FranciscoVenice
Score5757
Tourist attractions within 2 km4872
Park area within 2 km45 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 20 points.20
San FranciscoVenice
Score6383
Notable places within 2 km147464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 25 points.25
San FranciscoVenice
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 12 points.12
San FranciscoVenice
Score7866
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months72
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 Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
5 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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 FranciscoVenice
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation16 m2 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoVenice
City population873,965250,369
People per km²1,455602
Museums within 10 km5052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre10846
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.