VacationSelector

Gdansk or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

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

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

GdanskSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk and San Sebastian are level on 55.
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score5555
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km2010
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score5255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2826
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 18 points.18
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score5739
Museums within 10 km4317
Museums within 2 km of centre287
Share of museums within 2 km %6541
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 4 points.4
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score3640
Drinking venues within 4 km269388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7587
Nightclubs within 4 km3012
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 11 points.11
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score4556
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7052
Park area within 2 km61 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 45 points.45
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score7530
Tourist attractions within 2 km1085
Park area within 2 km61 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 2 points.2
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7689
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score7971
Price level global4960.8
Daily budget€133€122
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 6 points.6
GdanskSan Sebastian
Score5258
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months30
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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
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
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskSan Sebastian
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
5 h 5 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

MeasureGdanskSan Sebastian
Official languagePolishSpanish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskSan Sebastian
City population487,834189,866
People per km²7143,118
Museums within 10 km3714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre4845
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). 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.