VacationSelector

San Jose or Strasbourg?

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.

Strasbourg
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

San JoseStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
San JoseStrasbourg
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance14 km398 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 26 points.26
San JoseStrasbourg
Score4167
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1636
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 15 points.15
San JoseStrasbourg
Score2641
Museums within 10 km2023
Museums within 2 km of centre914
Share of museums within 2 km %4561
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
San JoseStrasbourg
Score3136
Drinking venues within 4 km231305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3887
Nightclubs within 4 km1617
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 16 points.16
San JoseStrasbourg
Score7054
Protected land share 50 km %2637
Landscape blanket share 50 km %235
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km101 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
San JoseStrasbourg
Score3338
Tourist attractions within 2 km29
Park area within 2 km101 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 44 points.44
San JoseStrasbourg
Score1458
Notable places within 2 km9109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
San JoseStrasbourg
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 22 points.22
San JoseStrasbourg
Score8563
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months83
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Jose
No sunshine record
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseStrasbourg
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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 JoseStrasbourg
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m132 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseStrasbourg
City population1,013,240293,771
People per km²2,1673,752
Museums within 10 km1921
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3087
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.