VacationSelector

San Francisco or Vilnius?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Vilnius
51
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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 FranciscoVilnius
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
San FranciscoVilnius
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4416
Coast distance2 km260 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 23 points.23
San FranciscoVilnius
Score8360
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359537
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3932
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 27 points.27
San FranciscoVilnius
Score4471
Museums within 10 km5774
Museums within 2 km of centre2954
Share of museums within 2 km %5173
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 22 points.22
San FranciscoVilnius
Score6846
Drinking venues within 4 km1,434464
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6584
Nightclubs within 4 km9739
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 19 points.19
San FranciscoVilnius
Score6041
Protected land share 50 km %1710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %57100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 6 points.6
San FranciscoVilnius
Score5751
Tourist attractions within 2 km4827
Park area within 2 km45 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 2 points.2
San FranciscoVilnius
Score6365
Notable places within 2 km147161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vilnius leads by 33 points.33
San FranciscoVilnius
Score4376
Price level global10053.1
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 25 points.25
San FranciscoVilnius
Score7853
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm41 mm to 90 mm
Dry months70
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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Vilnius
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
No sunshine record
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoVilnius
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 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 FranciscoVilnius
Official languageLithuanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation16 m98 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoVilnius
City population873,965581,475
People per km²1,4551,450
Museums within 10 km5030
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre10854
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.