VacationSelector

San Jose or Stockholm?

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

Your match

San Jose
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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 JoseStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 52 points.52
San JoseStockholm
Score860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 35 points.35
San JoseStockholm
Score4176
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3131,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1636
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 43 points.43
San JoseStockholm
Score2669
Museums within 10 km2074
Museums within 2 km of centre947
Share of museums within 2 km %4564
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 33 points.33
San JoseStockholm
Score3164
Drinking venues within 4 km2311,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3863
Nightclubs within 4 km16106
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 29 points.29
San JoseStockholm
Score7041
Protected land share 50 km %267
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %9177
Park area within 2 km101 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 24 points.24
San JoseStockholm
Score3357
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km101 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 65 points.65
San JoseStockholm
Score1479
Notable places within 2 km9357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
San JoseStockholm
Score4357
Price level global10080.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 32 points.32
San JoseStockholm
Score8553
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months85
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
San Jose
No sunshine record
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 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 JoseStockholm
Official languageSwedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m22 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseStockholm
City population1,013,240984,748
People per km²2,1675,260
Museums within 10 km19266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3081
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.