VacationSelector

Aarhus or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

AarhusSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 4 points.4
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score5955
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km2810
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 2 points.2
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score5355
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score3839
Museums within 10 km2617
Museums within 2 km of centre207
Share of museums within 2 km %7741
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Aarhus and San Sebastian are level on 40.
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score4040
Drinking venues within 4 km382388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8687
Nightclubs within 4 km1512
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score2856
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6852
Park area within 2 km72 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus leads by 3 points.3
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score3330
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km72 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 17 points.17
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score3754
Notable places within 2 km3389
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 19 points.19
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score5271
Price level global87.860.8
Daily budget€214€122
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 5 points.5
AarhusSan Sebastian
Score5358
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months30
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
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusSan Sebastian
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 5 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
5 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
BIO · 75 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

MeasureAarhusSan Sebastian
Official languageDanishSpanish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusSan Sebastian
City population290,598189,866
People per km²3,1933,118
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3745
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.