VacationSelector

Calgary or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgarySan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score6655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3626
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 30 points.30
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score939
Museums within 10 km817
Museums within 2 km of centre37
Share of museums within 2 km %3841
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 4 points.4
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score4440
Drinking venues within 4 km465388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7487
Nightclubs within 4 km1912
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 20 points.20
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score3656
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km142 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score4130
Tourist attractions within 2 km35
Park area within 2 km142 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 15 points.15
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score3954
Notable places within 2 km3789
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 17 points.17
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score5471
Price level global8460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
CalgarySan Sebastian
Score5758
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months80
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgarySan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 75 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 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

MeasureCalgarySan Sebastian
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m6 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgarySan Sebastian
City population1,306,784189,866
People per km²1,5833,118
Museums within 10 km1314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6745
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.