VacationSelector

San Jose or Venice?

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

Venice
✓ Best match
57
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 JoseVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 61 points.61
San JoseVenice
Score869
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance14 km4 km
Water distance14 km4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 4 points.4
San JoseVenice
Score4145
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1610
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 46 points.46
San JoseVenice
Score2672
Museums within 10 km2057
Museums within 2 km of centre945
Share of museums within 2 km %4579
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Venice leads by 4 points.4
San JoseVenice
Score3135
Drinking venues within 4 km231342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3889
Nightclubs within 4 km163
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 53 points.53
San JoseVenice
Score7017
Protected land share 50 km %264
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %9170
Park area within 2 km101 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 24 points.24
San JoseVenice
Score3357
Tourist attractions within 2 km272
Park area within 2 km101 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 69 points.69
San JoseVenice
Score1483
Notable places within 2 km9464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 25 points.25
San JoseVenice
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 19 points.19
San JoseVenice
Score8566
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months82
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Jose
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
5 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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 JoseVenice
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
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseVenice
City population1,013,240250,369
People per km²2,167602
Museums within 10 km1952
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3046
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.