VacationSelector

Hong Kong or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on value for money 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.

Hong KongSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 32 points.32
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score8755
Swim season months82
Beaches 10 km6510
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 33 points.33
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score8855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3226
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score3639
Museums within 10 km5017
Museums within 2 km of centre177
Share of museums within 2 km %3441
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 31 points.31
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score7140
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5987
Nightclubs within 4 km3712
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score6456
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2952
Park area within 2 km52 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 28 points.28
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score5830
Tourist attractions within 2 km275
Park area within 2 km52 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20489
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score6371
Price level global7260.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 16 points.16
Hong KongSan Sebastian
Score7458
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months40
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
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A
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHong KongSan Sebastian
Official languageStandard ChineseSpanish
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongSan Sebastian
City population7,413,070189,866
People per km²3,118
Museums within 10 km3914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7645
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.