VacationSelector

Naples or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

NaplesSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 21 points.21
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score7655
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km2910
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 9 points.9
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score4655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km726
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 39 points.39
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score7839
Museums within 10 km8417
Museums within 2 km of centre687
Share of museums within 2 km %8141
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Naples leads by 26 points.26
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score6640
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6987
Nightclubs within 4 km4012
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 19 points.19
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score3756
Protected land share 50 km %711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5652
Park area within 2 km41 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 11 points.11
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score4130
Tourist attractions within 2 km115
Park area within 2 km41 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 24 points.24
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score7854
Notable places within 2 km35189
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 15 points.15
NaplesSan Sebastian
Score7358
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months30
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
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
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
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. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromNaplesSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 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

MeasureNaplesSan 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
Elevation17 m6 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesSan Sebastian
City population913,462189,866
People per km²7,6763,118
Museums within 10 km6514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre3145
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Naples or San Sebastian somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.