VacationSelector

Belfast or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BelfastSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 7 points.7
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score4855
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1010
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 1 points.1
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score5655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3126
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 10 points.10
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score2939
Museums within 10 km1817
Museums within 2 km of centre67
Share of museums within 2 km %3341
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 8 points.8
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score4840
Drinking venues within 4 km550388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6387
Nightclubs within 4 km2912
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score5356
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6552
Park area within 2 km68 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 18 points.18
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score4830
Tourist attractions within 2 km165
Park area within 2 km68 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 12 points.12
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score4254
Notable places within 2 km4389
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 17 points.17
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 7 points.7
BelfastSan Sebastian
Score5158
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months00
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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastSan Sebastian
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 15 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€200-272
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 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

MeasureBelfastSan Sebastian
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m6 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastSan Sebastian
City population345,006189,866
People per km²3,0003,118
Museums within 10 km814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4445
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). 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.