VacationSelector

Cork or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

CorkSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 27 points.27
CorkSan Sebastian
Score2855
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 5 points.5
CorkSan Sebastian
Score5055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3526
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 16 points.16
CorkSan Sebastian
Score2339
Museums within 10 km1017
Museums within 2 km of centre87
Share of museums within 2 km %8041
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 2 points.2
CorkSan Sebastian
Score3840
Drinking venues within 4 km361388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8187
Nightclubs within 4 km912
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 4 points.4
CorkSan Sebastian
Score5256
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7452
Park area within 2 km48 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
CorkSan Sebastian
Score2730
Tourist attractions within 2 km75
Park area within 2 km48 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 32 points.32
CorkSan Sebastian
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1489
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 14 points.14
CorkSan Sebastian
Score5771
Price level global80.260.8
Daily budget€187€122
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 9 points.9
CorkSan Sebastian
Score4958
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkSan Sebastian
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 20 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCorkSan Sebastian
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkSan Sebastian
City population222,333189,866
People per km²5,9613,118
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4945
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). 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. 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.