VacationSelector

Inverness or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

InvernessSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 27 points.27
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score2855
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 34 points.34
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score2155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1126
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 19 points.19
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score2039
Museums within 10 km617
Museums within 2 km of centre57
Share of museums within 2 km %8341
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 25 points.25
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score1540
Drinking venues within 4 km113388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8787
Nightclubs within 4 km412
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 47 points.47
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score956
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8852
Park area within 2 km3 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 30 points.30
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score030
Tourist attractions within 2 km35
Park area within 2 km3 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 30 points.30
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score2454
Notable places within 2 km1689
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 17 points.17
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 6 points.6
InvernessSan Sebastian
Score5258
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months10
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
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. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 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

MeasureInvernessSan Sebastian
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessSan Sebastian
City population47,380189,866
People per km²2,2893,118
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre1545
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.