VacationSelector

Maastricht or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance118 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 7 points.7
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score4855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2226
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 14 points.14
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score5339
Museums within 10 km2317
Museums within 2 km of centre137
Share of museums within 2 km %5741
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score3040
Drinking venues within 4 km223388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8287
Nightclubs within 4 km1312
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 19 points.19
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score3756
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km33 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 16 points.16
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score4630
Tourist attractions within 2 km155
Park area within 2 km33 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 18 points.18
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score3654
Notable places within 2 km3289
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 13 points.13
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score5871
Price level global79.260.8
Daily budget€181€122
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 1 points.1
MaastrichtSan Sebastian
Score5958
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtSan Sebastian
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
LGG · 29 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 85 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMaastrichtSan Sebastian
Official languageDutchSpanish
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 number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m6 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtSan Sebastian
City population120,227189,866
People per km²2,0003,118
Museums within 10 km2114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre3345
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.