VacationSelector

Kotor or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Kotor
36
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

KotorSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 22 points.22
KotorSan Sebastian
Score7755
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km5010
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 29 points.29
KotorSan Sebastian
Score2655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre71472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1926
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 11 points.11
KotorSan Sebastian
Score2839
Museums within 10 km717
Museums within 2 km of centre37
Share of museums within 2 km %4341
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 36 points.36
KotorSan Sebastian
Score440
Drinking venues within 4 km46388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8387
Nightclubs within 4 km312
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 41 points.41
KotorSan Sebastian
Score1556
Protected land share 50 km %1011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %6652
Park area within 2 km2 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 21 points.21
KotorSan Sebastian
Score930
Tourist attractions within 2 km85
Park area within 2 km2 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 33 points.33
KotorSan Sebastian
Score2154
Notable places within 2 km1389
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 16 points.16
KotorSan Sebastian
Score8771
Price level global38.960.8
Daily budget€95€122
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 3 points.3
KotorSan Sebastian
Score6158
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 33.2 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 256 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
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3
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. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKotorSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKotorSan Sebastian
Official languageMontenegrinSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorSan Sebastian
City population562189,866
People per km²3,118
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2745
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. 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.