VacationSelector

Mostar or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

MostarSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
MostarSan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km710
Coast distance44 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 36 points.36
MostarSan Sebastian
Score1955
Restaurants within 2 km of centre117472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km926
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
MostarSan Sebastian
Score3639
Museums within 10 km1317
Museums within 2 km of centre127
Share of museums within 2 km %9241
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 18 points.18
MostarSan Sebastian
Score2240
Drinking venues within 4 km154388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre147338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9587
Nightclubs within 4 km812
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 47 points.47
MostarSan Sebastian
Score956
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9952
Park area within 2 km7 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. San Sebastian leads by 15 points.15
MostarSan Sebastian
Score1530
Tourist attractions within 2 km105
Park area within 2 km7 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 18 points.18
MostarSan Sebastian
Score3654
Notable places within 2 km3189
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 17 points.17
MostarSan Sebastian
Score8871
Price level global37.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 3 points.3
MostarSan Sebastian
Score6158
Monthly daytime high9.3 °C to 33.4 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Mostar
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Mostar
9
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
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
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. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMostarSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 95 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 95 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMostarSan Sebastian
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianSpanish
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)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
Elevation60 m6 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMostarSan Sebastian
City population105,448189,866
People per km²903,118
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre1845
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). 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. 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. 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.