VacationSelector

Portland or San Sebastian?

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

Your match

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

San Sebastian
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

PortlandSan Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km2710
Coast distance69 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 19 points.19
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score7455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,011472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4426
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 4 points.4
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score3539
Museums within 10 km2317
Museums within 2 km of centre157
Share of museums within 2 km %6541
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Portland leads by 18 points.18
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score5840
Drinking venues within 4 km942388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5587
Nightclubs within 4 km3212
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 21 points.21
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score3556
Protected land share 50 km %1311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km37 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Portland leads by 4 points.4
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score3430
Tourist attractions within 2 km85
Park area within 2 km37 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 19 points.19
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score3554
Notable places within 2 km2989
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. San Sebastian leads by 28 points.28
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 7 points.7
PortlandSan Sebastian
Score6558
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Portland
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
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. Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandSan Sebastian
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 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

MeasurePortlandSan Sebastian
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation152 m6 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandSan Sebastian
City population652,503189,866
People per km²1,7363,118
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre8245
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.