VacationSelector

Pisa or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Pisa
45
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

PisaSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 34 points.34
PisaSan Sebastian
Score2155
Swim season months42
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance10 km0 km
Water distance10 km0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 21 points.21
PisaSan Sebastian
Score3455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km926
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 16 points.16
PisaSan Sebastian
Score5539
Museums within 10 km2717
Museums within 2 km of centre227
Share of museums within 2 km %8141
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 12 points.12
PisaSan Sebastian
Score2840
Drinking venues within 4 km232388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8887
Nightclubs within 4 km312
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 17 points.17
PisaSan Sebastian
Score3956
Protected land share 50 km %911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6552
Park area within 2 km40 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 17 points.17
PisaSan Sebastian
Score4730
Tourist attractions within 2 km205
Park area within 2 km40 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 7 points.7
PisaSan Sebastian
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km5889
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
PisaSan Sebastian
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 12 points.12
PisaSan Sebastian
Score7058
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm92 mm to 203 mm
Dry months20
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaSan Sebastian
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SDR · 149 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 75 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 15 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePisaSan 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
Elevation4 m6 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaSan Sebastian
City population88,737189,866
People per km²4793,118
Museums within 10 km2714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2945
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.