VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money 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.

Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score8455
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km710
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 10 points.10
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score4555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1826
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 19 points.19
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score2039
Museums within 10 km1417
Museums within 2 km of centre67
Share of museums within 2 km %4341
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 6 points.6
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score3440
Drinking venues within 4 km259388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5687
Nightclubs within 4 km1812
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score8156
Protected land share 50 km %2011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5152
Park area within 2 km45 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score1930
Tourist attractions within 2 km25
Park area within 2 km45 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 54 points.54
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score054
Notable places within 2 km289
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 18 points.18
Fort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Score7658
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
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 2026-09 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleSan Sebastian
City population182,760189,866
People per km²1,8293,118
Museums within 10 km614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2545
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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.