Beaches, a legendary zoo and ideal climate. Here is when to go, what a day costs on site and what to see, then Okela composes your itinerary hour by hour.

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When to visit San Diego

Best months: April, May, June, September and October.

What to see in San Diego

1. Balboa Park
   Balboa Park brings together Spanish colonial style architecture left over from the 1915 and 1935 expositions, gardens, and an unusual concentration of museums in one place.
2. Zoo de San Diego
   Set in Balboa Park, this zoo spreads across wooded grounds where the enclosures blend into dense planting, with an arboretum of rare trees.
3. La Jolla Cove
   A small cove sheltered by cliffs, with clear water and marine life close to shore.
4. Gaslamp Quarter
   This is where San Diego kept its Victorian-era brick façades, now home to restaurants, bars and music venues.
5. Coronado Beach
   A wide stretch of pale sand backed by the Victorian outline of the Hotel del Coronado, where you feel on holiday and still close to a real town.
6. USS Midway
   This US Navy aircraft carrier, moored right in downtown San Diego, can be explored from the engine spaces up to the flight deck.
7. Old Town
   This is where San Diego began: you wander between adobe houses and buildings from the Mexican and early American periods, around a plaza that invites you to slow down.
8. Sunset Cliffs
   Point Loma's coast breaks into sandstone cliffs carved by the waves, facing a wide open Pacific.

A sample itinerary for San Diego, three days

Composed by Okela from the places in its database, with times. Yours takes your dates, pace and group into account.

Budget

Expect about €231 per person per day on site (accommodation, meals, transport and visits), depending on the comfort you choose. Okela shows the price of every step of your itinerary.

My San Diego itinerary, hour by hour

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