VacationSelector

Killarney or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Killarney
21
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KillarneySan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 32 points.32
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score2355
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance18 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 33 points.33
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score2255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre65472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1526
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 29 points.29
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score1039
Museums within 10 km017
Museums within 2 km of centre07
Share of museums within 2 km %41
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 37 points.37
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score340
Drinking venues within 4 km72388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre57338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7987
Nightclubs within 4 km012
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 47 points.47
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score956
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8652
Park area within 2 km13 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 22 points.22
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score830
Tourist attractions within 2 km45
Park area within 2 km13 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 44 points.44
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score1054
Notable places within 2 km789
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 14 points.14
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score5771
Price level global80.260.8
Daily budget€187€122
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 10 points.10
KillarneySan Sebastian
Score4858
Monthly daytime high9.9 °C to 18 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall91 mm to 187 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
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
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. Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKillarneySan Sebastian
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
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

MeasureKillarneySan Sebastian
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m6 m
Main airportKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKillarneySan Sebastian
City population14,412189,866
People per km²3,118
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre1945
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.