VacationSelector

Oslo or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

OsloSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
OsloSan Sebastian
Score6055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km16310
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 12 points.12
OsloSan Sebastian
Score6755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3426
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
OsloSan Sebastian
Score4839
Museums within 10 km7017
Museums within 2 km of centre377
Share of museums within 2 km %5341
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 13 points.13
OsloSan Sebastian
Score5340
Drinking venues within 4 km695388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8187
Nightclubs within 4 km4112
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
OsloSan Sebastian
Score6156
Protected land share 50 km %2211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9452
Park area within 2 km88 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 18 points.18
OsloSan Sebastian
Score4830
Tourist attractions within 2 km135
Park area within 2 km88 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
OsloSan Sebastian
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20789
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 17 points.17
OsloSan Sebastian
Score5471
Price level global85.160.8
Daily budget€203€122
Year-round weather. San Sebastian leads by 10 points.10
OsloSan Sebastian
Score4858
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
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. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureOsloSan Sebastian
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiSpanish
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation23 m6 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloSan Sebastian
City population717,710189,866
People per km²3,118
Museums within 10 km6014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7545
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.