VacationSelector

Florence or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

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

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

FlorenceSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance78 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score5955
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1526
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 43 points.43
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score8239
Museums within 10 km13217
Museums within 2 km of centre937
Share of museums within 2 km %7041
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Florence leads by 16 points.16
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score5640
Drinking venues within 4 km818388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7387
Nightclubs within 4 km3412
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 18 points.18
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score3856
Protected land share 50 km %911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km86 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score5230
Tourist attractions within 2 km305
Park area within 2 km86 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 21 points.21
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score7554
Notable places within 2 km29289
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceSan Sebastian
Score6858
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
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
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (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 fromFlorenceSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SDR · 149 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 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

MeasureFlorenceSan Sebastian
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m6 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceSan Sebastian
City population360,930189,866
People per km²3,5283,118
Museums within 10 km14014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre6245
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.