VacationSelector

La Spezia or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 18 points.18
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score7355
Swim season months42
Beaches 10 km3210
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 24 points.24
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score3155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1126
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score4239
Museums within 10 km1517
Museums within 2 km of centre107
Share of museums within 2 km %6741
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 16 points.16
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score2440
Drinking venues within 4 km208388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8587
Nightclubs within 4 km112
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 4 points.4
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score5256
Protected land share 50 km %1311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5152
Park area within 2 km23 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 10 points.10
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score2030
Tourist attractions within 2 km35
Park area within 2 km23 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 47 points.47
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score754
Notable places within 2 km689
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
La SpeziaSan Sebastian
Score7058
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months20
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
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
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
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. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaSan Sebastian
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SDR · 149 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€207-240
1 stop
GOA · 86 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 15 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureLa SpeziaSan Sebastian
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m6 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaSan Sebastian
City population92,119189,866
People per km²1,7923,118
Museums within 10 km1214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre2245
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.