VacationSelector

Miami or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

MiamiSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 40 points.40
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score9555
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km2010
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 10 points.10
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score6555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2926
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 16 points.16
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score2339
Museums within 10 km2817
Museums within 2 km of centre67
Share of museums within 2 km %2141
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Miami leads by 10 points.10
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score5040
Drinking venues within 4 km538388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5387
Nightclubs within 4 km6312
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 16 points.16
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score7256
Protected land share 50 km %1611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4852
Park area within 2 km50 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 14 points.14
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score4430
Tourist attractions within 2 km145
Park area within 2 km50 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 12 points.12
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score4254
Notable places within 2 km4589
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 16 points.16
MiamiSan Sebastian
Score7458
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 16 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
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

MeasureMiamiSan Sebastian
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiSan Sebastian
City population442,241189,866
People per km²3,0463,118
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3945
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.