VacationSelector

San Francisco or Verona?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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 FranciscoVerona
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
San FranciscoVerona
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km442
Coast distance2 km104 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 40 points.40
San FranciscoVerona
Score8343
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3913
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 12 points.12
San FranciscoVerona
Score4456
Museums within 10 km5720
Museums within 2 km of centre2919
Share of museums within 2 km %5195
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 28 points.28
San FranciscoVerona
Score6840
Drinking venues within 4 km1,434416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6565
Nightclubs within 4 km979
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 24 points.24
San FranciscoVerona
Score6036
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %57100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 12 points.12
San FranciscoVerona
Score5769
Tourist attractions within 2 km4862
Park area within 2 km45 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 10 points.10
San FranciscoVerona
Score6353
Notable places within 2 km14782
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Verona leads by 25 points.25
San FranciscoVerona
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 13 points.13
San FranciscoVerona
Score7865
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months71
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
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Verona
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
No sunshine record
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 106 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
LisbonLIS
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 55 m
€122-127
VCE · 106 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
CancunCUN
5 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 10 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 2026-09 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 FranciscoVerona
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 m59 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoVerona
City population873,965255,588
People per km²1,4551,285
Museums within 10 km5018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre10835
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.