VacationSelector

Izmir or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Izmir
53
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

IzmirSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Izmir and San Sebastian are level on 55.
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score5555
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 6 points.6
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score4955
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1226
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 4 points.4
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score4339
Museums within 10 km4717
Museums within 2 km of centre277
Share of museums within 2 km %5741
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 22 points.22
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score6240
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6887
Nightclubs within 4 km7012
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 27 points.27
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score2956
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8452
Park area within 2 km62 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 5 points.5
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score3530
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km62 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 14 points.14
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km3989
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score8971
Price level global35.260.8
Daily budget€100€122
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
IzmirSan Sebastian
Score7258
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months50
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
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. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirSan Sebastian
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
LyonLYS
3 h 0 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 20 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

MeasureIzmirSan Sebastian
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirSan Sebastian
City population4,493,242189,866
People per km²4,7603,118
Museums within 10 km2914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2045
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.