VacationSelector

San Jose or Stuttgart?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

San JoseStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
San JoseStuttgart
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance14 km476 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 18 points.18
San JoseStuttgart
Score4159
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1629
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 30 points.30
San JoseStuttgart
Score2656
Museums within 10 km2065
Museums within 2 km of centre921
Share of museums within 2 km %4532
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 18 points.18
San JoseStuttgart
Score3149
Drinking venues within 4 km231524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3871
Nightclubs within 4 km1653
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 10 points.10
San JoseStuttgart
Score7080
Protected land share 50 km %2651
Landscape blanket share 50 km %231
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km101 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 12 points.12
San JoseStuttgart
Score3345
Tourist attractions within 2 km211
Park area within 2 km101 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 30 points.30
San JoseStuttgart
Score1444
Notable places within 2 km950
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 17 points.17
San JoseStuttgart
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 22 points.22
San JoseStuttgart
Score8563
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm33 mm to 79 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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Jose
No sunshine record
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
16 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 146 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 146 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 JoseStuttgart
Official languageGerman
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m245 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseStuttgart
City population1,013,240633,484
People per km²2,1673,054
Museums within 10 km1942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3059
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.