VacationSelector

Avignon or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Avignon
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AvignonSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance55 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 11 points.11
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score4455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1826
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 16 points.16
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score5539
Museums within 10 km1717
Museums within 2 km of centre167
Share of museums within 2 km %9441
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 24 points.24
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score1640
Drinking venues within 4 km115388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8487
Nightclubs within 4 km412
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 12 points.12
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score4456
Protected land share 50 km %3611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km23 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 12 points.12
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score4230
Tourist attractions within 2 km155
Park area within 2 km23 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 14 points.14
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km4089
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 9 points.9
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 12 points.12
AvignonSan Sebastian
Score7058
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months20
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
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 35 m
€114-174
MRS · 65 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
2 h 15 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAvignonSan Sebastian
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonSan Sebastian
City population92,188189,866
People per km²1,4203,118
Museums within 10 km1114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre3645
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.