VacationSelector

Orlando or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

OrlandoSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance68 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 7 points.7
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score4855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2126
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 31 points.31
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score839
Museums within 10 km1117
Museums within 2 km of centre27
Share of museums within 2 km %1841
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 1 points.1
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score4140
Drinking venues within 4 km344388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6387
Nightclubs within 4 km3912
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 12 points.12
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score4456
Protected land share 50 km %1511
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km52 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 59 points.59
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score8930
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km201
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares70 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km5
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 38 points.38
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score1654
Notable places within 2 km1089
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 16 points.16
OrlandoSan Sebastian
Score7458
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
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. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 km
1 h 50 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

MeasureOrlandoSan 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
Elevation34 m6 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoSan Sebastian
City population334,854189,866
People per km²1,0863,118
Museums within 10 km1114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3045
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). 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. 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.